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      • Data science and cyber trust
      • Quantifying vulnerabilities
      • Secure systems and networking
    • Health IT
      • Cyber-physical-human systems
      • Data science
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      • Novel computing platforms and information processing approaches
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    • Internet of Things
    • Robotics
      • Collaborative robotic teams
      • Mobile Robotics
      • Robotic intelligence
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    • IBM-Illinois Discovery Accelerator Institute
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Robotics

Robotics is an interdisciplinary and evolving field focused on developing intelligent machines that interact with the physical world. Robotics research at CSL emphasizes computational methods for planning, perception, and learning, novel sensing devices and methods, mechanical device design and development, integration between software and hardware, and deploying and evaluating these methods in real-world settings. Our mission is to achieve excellence in robotics research by integrating diverse aspects of engineering and computing into robotics applications with significant socioeconomic impact, such as autonomous vehicles, industrial robots, medical robots, and agricultural robots.

 

Research

Robotics researchers at CSL apply their expertise to enable breakthroughs in a wide range of topics including:

  • Robot learning
  • Motion planning
  • Computer vision and 3D perception
  • Mechatronics
  • Verification
  • Human-robot interaction
  • Agricultural and off-road robots
  • Legged robots and humanoids
  • Soft robots

See the Robotics Group website for more.

Group Contact

Rhonda Henderson
355 CSL
rhender@illinois.edu
(217) 300-8511

Mandy Foster Swartzendruber
153 CSL
mandyf@illinois.edu
(217) 265-4062

Related Faculty

Nancy M. Amato
Head, Computer Science
Timothy Bretl
he/him/his
Professor of Aerospace Engineering
Girish Chowdhary
Associate Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, and Computer Science
Katie Driggs-Campbell
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Geir Dullerud
he/him/his
W. Grafton and Lillian B. Wilkins Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Saurabh Gupta
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kris Hauser
Professor of Computer Science
Naira Hovakimyan
she/her/hers
Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Elizabeth T. Hsiao-Wecksler
Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Joohyung Kim
he/him/his
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Melkior Ornik
Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering
Jeff Shamma
Professor of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering

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