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Robotics Institute Collection

Robotics Institute Collection, 1980-1998
Carnegie Mellon University Archives, Official University Records

Extent
One Box; 1 Linear Ft.

Records History
Carnegie Mellon University has long had one of the foremost computer science programs in the country. This has led not only to a great deal of basic research, but also to pioneering collaborations with government and business. Technology transfer has been at the heart of the Robotics Institute.

Allan Newell of the School of Computer Science first suggested the idea of a facility to study and design robots in the early 1970's. University President Richard Cyert was interested in the idea and assigned Newell, Herbert A. Simon, and Raj Reddy to study the possibilities. In 1978, the Robotics Institute was established with Raj Reddy as the first director.

From the beginning, the Institute was supported by major players in industry and government, with some of the biggest sponsors being Westinghouse Electric, the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the Department of Defense. Raj Reddy was the director from 1978 to 1991. Takeo Kanade served from 1992 to 2001, and Chuck Thorpe took over the job from Dr. Kanade.

In 1996, the Robotics Institute in collaboration with NASA opened the National Robotics Engineering Consortium in the Lawrenceville section of Pittsburgh. The NREC's goals included research in areas such as basic robotics technologies, automation and computer-integrated manufacturing, robotics for hazardous environments, and autonomous mobile robots. The Institute's headquarters on campus is in Newell-Simon Hall.

Scope and Content Notes
The Robotics Institute Collection consists of materials related to the history of the Institute and some of the research conducted there. It includes newspaper clippings, pamphlets and brochures about some of the Institute's projects, research reviews, and publications. The collection is organized into two series: publications and Institute history. In addition to the materials in the collection, there are also three folders of photographs that are part of the University Archives' Photo Collection. These folders are located in Drawer 23 of that collection.

Series I: Publications
The first series contains various published papers, books, presentations, and conference proceedings from research conducted at the Institute. All of these projects involved Dr. Takeo Kanade, as well as other staff and faculty at the Institute. They are arranged chronologically by date of publication.

Series II: Institute History
The second series contains records related to the history of the Robotics Institute. Most of these are newspaper clippings, which have been photocopied for preservation purposes. The series also contains various pamphlets, brochures, and short descriptions of research projects. There are also a few slides of robots that have been developed and built by the Institute.

Restrictions
None

Separations
None

Processor
Nikolas M. Henle

Container List: Robotics Institute Collection

Bx 1
Series I: Publications

FF1 T. Kanade - "Visual Sensing and Interpretation: Image Understanding Point of View," n.d.
FF2 Makoto Nagao, Toshiyuki Sakai, and Takeo Kanade - "Computer Analysis and Classification of Photographs of Human Faces," n.d.
FF3 Takeo Kanade, Hiroshi Kano, Shigeru Kimura, Atsushi Yoshida, Kazuo Oda - "Development of a Video-Rate Stereo Machine," 1995.
FF4 M. Uenohara and T. Kanade - "Vision Based Object Registration for Real-Time Image Overlay," 1994.
FF5 Takeo Kanade and Masatoshi Okutomi - "A Stereo Matching Algorithm with an Adaptive Window: Theory and Experiment," 1994.
FF6 In So Kweon and Takeo Kanade - "Extracting Topographic Terrain Features From Elevation Maps," 1994.
FF7 Yangsheng Xu, H. Benjamin Brown, Jr., Mark Friedman, Takeo Kanade - "Control System of the Self-Mobile Space Manipulator," 1994.
FF8 Takeo Kanade - "Very Fast 3-D Sensing Hardware," 1993.
FF9 Japanese Article, not translated, 1993.
FF10 Masatoshi Okutomi and Takeo Kanade - "A Multiple-Baseline Stereo," 1993.
FF11 Takeo Kanade and Ruzena Bajcsy, eds. - "Computational Sensors: A Report from the DARPA Workshop," 1993.
FF12 Takeo Kanade - "From a Real Chair to a Negative Chair," 1993.
FF13 Takeo Kanade, Masatoshi Okutomi, Tomoharu Nakahara - "A Multiple-Baseline Stereo Method," 1992.
FF14 Masatoshi Okutomi and Takeo Kanade - "A Locally Adaptive Window for Signal Matching," 1992.
FF15 In So Kweon and Takeo Kanade - "High-Resolution Terrain Map from Multiple Sensor Data," 1992.
FF16 Carlo Tomasi, Takeo Kanade - "Full Report on the Orthographic Case," 1992.
FF17 Masatoshi Okutomi, Takeo Kanade - "A Multiple-Baseline Stereo," 1991.
FF18 Carlo Tomasi, Takeo Kanade - "Detection and Tracking of Point Features," 1991.
FF19 Takeo Kanade, Tom Binford, Tomaso Poggio, Azriel Rosenfeld - "Vision," 1990.
FF20 Carlo Tomasi, Takeo Kanade - "Shape and Motion from Image Streams: a Factorization Method," 1990.
FF21 Gudrun J. Klinker, Steven A. Shafer, Takeo Kanade - "A Physical Approach to Color Image Understanding," 1990.
FF22 Larry Matthies, Takeo Kanade, Richard Szeliski - "Kalman Filter-based Algorithms for Estimating Depth from Image Sequences," 1989.
FF23 John Bares, Martial Hebert, Takeo Kanade, Eric Krotkov, Tom Mitchell, Reid Simmons, and William Whittaker - "Ambler: An Autonomous Rover for Planetary Exploration," 1989.
FF24 Yoshinori Kuno, Katsushi Ikeuchi, Takeo Kanade - "Proceedings of SPIE: Digital and Optical Shape Representation and Pattern Recognition," 1988.
FF25 Gudrun J. Klinker, Steven A. Shafer, and Takeo Kanade - "The Measurement of Highlights in Color Images," 1988.
FF26 Martin Herman, Takeo Kanade - "Incremental Reconstruction of 3D Scenes from Multiple Complex Images," 1986.
FF27 Yuichi Ohta and Takeo Kanade - "Stereo by Intra- and Inter-Scanline Search Using Dynamic Programming," 1985.
FF28 Takeo Kanade, Donald Schmitz - "Development of CMU Direct-Drive Arm II," 1985.
FF29 Takeo Kanade, Donald Schmitz - "Development of CMU Direct-Drive Arm II," 1985.
FF30 Ellen Lowenfeld Walker, Takeo Kanade - "Shape Recovery of a Solid of Revolution From Apparent Distortions of Patterns," 1984.
FF31 Michael Fuhrman, Takeo Kanade - "Optical proximity sensor using multiple cones of light for measuring surface shape," 1984.
FF32 Martin Herman, Takeo Kanade, and Shigeru Kuroe - "Incremental Acquisition of a Three-Dimensional Scene Model from Images," 1984.
FF33 Michael Fuhrman and Takeo Kanade - "Design of an Optical Proximity Sensor Using Multiple Cones of Light for Measuring Surface Shape," 1984.
FF34 Tokuji Okada and Takeo Kanade - "Appropriate Lengths Between Phalanges of Multijointed Fingers for Stable Grasping," 1984.
FF35 Martin Herman, Takeo Kanade - "The 3D MOSAIC Scene Understanding System: Incremental Reconstruction of 3D Scenes from Complex Images," 1984.
FF36 Steven A. Shafer and Takeo Kanade - "Using Shadows in Finding Surface Orientations," 1983.
FF37 Steven A. Shafer, Takeo Kanade - "The Theory of Straight Homogenous Generalized Cylinders and A Taxonomy of Generalized Cylinders," 1983.
FF38 Takeo Kanade - "Representation and Control in Vision," 1983.
FF39 Takeo Kanade and Thomas M. Sommer - "An Optical Proximity Sensor for Measuring Surface Position and Orientation for Robot Manipulation," 1983.
FF40 Steven A. Shafer, Takeo Kanade, and John Kender - "Gradient Space under Orthography and Perspective," 1983.
FF41 Takeo Kanade - "Geometrical Aspects of Interpreting Images as a Three-Dimensional Scene," 1983.
FF42 Tokuji Okada and Takeo Kanade - "Appropriate Lengths Between Phalanges of Multijointed Fingers for Stable Grasping," 1983.
FF43 Nancy Cornelius and Takeo Kanade - "Adapting Optical-Flow to Measure Object Motion in Reflectance and X-ray Image Sequences," 1983.
FF44 Martin Herman, Takeo Kanade - "The 3D MOSAIC Scene Understanding System: Incremental Reconstruction of 3D Scenes from Complex Images," 1983.
FF45 Takeo Kanade - "Vision," 1982.
FF46 Steven A. Shafer, Takeo Kanade - "Using Shadows in Finding Surface Orientations," 1982.
FF47 Steven Shafer, Takeo Kanade - "Recursive Region Segmentation by Analysis of Histograms," 1982.
FF48 Takeo Kanade - "Recovery of the Three-Dimensional Shape of an Object from a Single View," 1981.
FF49 Michihiko Minou, Takeo Kanade and Toshiyuki Sakai - "A Method of Time-Coded Parallel Planes of Light for Depth Measurement," 1981.
FF50 Takeo Kanade, Haruhiko Asada - "Proceedings of SPIE: 3-D Machine Perception," 1981.
FF51 Haruhiko Asada and Takeo Kanade - "Design of Direct-Drive Mechanical Arms," 1981.
FF52 Haruhiko Asada, Takeo Kanade, Ichiro Takeyama - "Control of a Direct-Drive Arm," 1981.
FF53 Takeo Kanade - "A Theory of Origami World," 1980.
FF54 Yu-ichi Ohta, Takeo Kanade and Toshiyuki Sakai - "Color Information for Region Segmentation," 1980.
FF55 Takeo Kanade - "Region Segmentation: Signal vs. Semantics," 1980.

Series II: Institute History

FF56 One Page Sampler Series, 1984-1986.
FF57 Opening - Newsclippings, 1980.
FF58 Report Covers, 1981-1982.
FF59 Slides of Various Types of Robots, 1987.
FF60 Pittsburgh Magazine, Oct. 1989.
FF61 "The Robotics Institute: A Profile," n.d.
FF62 Opening - Newsclippings, 1981.
FF63 Newsclippings, 1980-1988.
FF64 Raptech, Inc. - Flyer, n.d.
FF65 Minerva - Brochure for Minerva's tour of "Material World" at the Smithsonian, 1998.
Book The Robotics Institute: Annual Research Review, 1990.
Book The Robotics Institute: Annual Research Review, 1987.
Book The Robotics Institute: Annual Research Review, 1986.
Book The Robotics Institute: Annual Research Review, 1986.
Book The Robotics Institute: Annual Research Review, 1985.
Book The Robotics Institute: Annual Research Review, 1984.
Book The Robotics Institute: Annual Research Review, 1984.
Book The Robotics Institute: Annual Research Review, 1983.
Book The Robotics Institute: Annual Research Review, 1983.
Book Sutherland, Ivan E. - A Walking Robot, 1983. (2 copies)