Research Projects - The Berkeley Automation Sciences Lab

Small Projects

• A Local-Global Planner for 3D Steerable Needle Insertion Based on the Stochastic Motion Roadmap and Screw-Based Motion Planning
  Jijie Xu, Vincent Duindam, Ron Alterovitz and Ken Goldberg
• Actuator Networks: Inducing Potential Fields to Guide a Moving Element to a Desired Position Using Push-Cage-Squeeze Cycles
  Ken Goldberg, Jeremy Ryan Schiff, Danny Bazo and Vincent Duindam
• Eigentaste 5.0: Constant-Time Adaptability in a Recommender System Using Item Clustering
  Tavi Nathanson, Ephrat Bitton and Ken Goldberg
• Hydra: A Networked, Collaborative Simulation and Visualization Tool for Single and Multiple UAV-Assisted Search (Hydra)
  Ephrat Bitton and Ken Goldberg
• Screw-Based Motion Planning for Bevel-Tip Flexible Needles in 3D Environments with Obstacles
  Vincent Duindam, Ron Alterovitz, S. Shankar Sastry and Ken Goldberg
• The Stochastic Motion Roadmap: A Sampling Framework for Planning with Markov Motion Uncertainty
  Ron Alterovitz, Thierry Simeon and Ken Goldberg