PSU INTELLIGENT ROBOTICS LABORATORY: NEWS FOR YEAR 2002

1. Winter term Several selected high students work whole year on their advanced robotics projects. Some of these projects will be next published.
   
   
2. Spring term A group of Capstone project students completes a voice-controlled hexapod robot with Lattice FPAA for noise filtering and several microcontrollers.
   
   
3. Spring term A Capstone project on voice control using FONIX technology is completed.
   
   
4. Summer term Uland Wong completes his Big Ugly Greeter (BUG) robot. It consists from a (ugly) latex head and a four-fingered, 20 motor hand. It is demonstrated in the high school students conference. This is our first humanoid robot with integrated voice recognition, voice synthesis, robot vision (tracking) and articulated hand and head. Uland is accepted to Carnegie Mellon University. So is our RAS Chair Mikhail Pivtoraiko.
   
   
5. Summer term Karl Kuchs completes the Robot Colony project. It consists of 6 walking and mobile robots and an energy-loading base.
   
   
6. Fall term Martin Lukac presented several of our group papers at the International Workshop on Boolean Problems in Freiberg, Germany. He worked there for half year on NSF/DAAD grant for Data Mining using Constructive Induction, working with Professor Bernd Steinbach and his team.