Bruce Randall Donald
Professor
brd@cs.dartmouth.edu

Ph.D. MIT, 1987

Robotics Research

• Robotics.
• Micro Actuator and Micro Manipulation Systems
• Biomimetic robotics
  • Experiments in Constrained Prehensile Manipulation: Distributed Manipulation with Ropes, with Larry Gariepy and Daniela Rus, In Experimental Robotics VI, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, eds. P. Corke, Springer-Verlag, 1999 (to appear).
  • Micromanipulation with biomimetic cilia arrays
• Haptics
• Robot Map-making and Localization from CS 104
  • Demo.

    • Movie, 4:30, Quicktime with Sorenson codec, max 250 kb/s (42MB)	mapmaking-movie-5.250kbit.mov
      Movie, 4:30, Quicktime with Sorenson codec, max 100 kb/s (26MB)	mapmaking-movie-5.100kbit.mov
      Gzipped PostScript version of the final ICRA paper (0.8 MB)	proceedings version

• Robots featured in our papers.
• International Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR)
• I am program chair of WAFR 2000.
  WAFR '98
• Spinoffs.
• Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS).
• MEMS Research
• Dartmouth Microengineering Laboratory
• Computational Methods for Design and Control of MEMS Micromanipulator Arrays [PostScript]
  • Demos.
• Physical Geometric Algorithms.
• NSF Research Infrastructure Grant

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• Selected publications.
• Lab.

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• My old web page at Cornell (mirrored here); (at Cornell).
• Cornell Robotics and Vision Laboratory