Research Labs

For RIM@GT Tech robotics necessitates multidisciplinary research. Our faculty and staff are engaged in cross-campus partnerships that significantly increase opportunities for the kind of practical innovation that will be useful to society. This broad-based commitment to robotics is evident in more than a dozen laboratories at Georgia Tech performing robotics-related work:
Robotics Laboratories at Georgia Tech

• Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics Research Laboratory, School of Mechanical Engineering.
  Established to develop concepts, algorithms, theories, and methodologies for the integration of precision mechanical engineering with advanced electronics and computational control in the design and manufacturing of intelligent products and processes.
• Agricultural Technology Research Program, Georgia Tech Research Institute.
  Implementing automation techniques for the poultry industry in particular and in the food-processing industry at large.
• Biomedical Imaging Lab, Department of Biomedical Engineering.
  Focuses upon mathematical approaches to computer vision and image processing. More specifically, research can be divided into four areas: segmentation, tracking, control, and RNA folding.
• Bio-Robotics and Human Modeling Laboratory, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology.
  Focuses on the development of compliant, large strain piezoelectric actuators and a robust control method called stochastic broadcast feedback, dynamics and control in robotics, such as robot hand manipulation, tactile sensing, and power-assisting, robot manipulators mounted on a nonrigid base, and feedback control robustness in terms of the coupling of the arm and base dynamics..
• The BORG Lab, College of Computing.
  Enabling humans, robots and other automated systems, to collaborate effectively in dynamic, noisy and unknown environments.
• Computational Perception Lab, College of Computing.
  Focuses on refining human-robot interactions.
• Contextual Computing Group, College of Computing.
  Tasked with developing, studying, and implementing contextually aware wearable computer systems.
• Construction Resource Center, College of Architecture.
  Devoted to providing cutting-edge research and developing innovative solutions to the problems facing public and private organizations in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction industry.
• Embedded and Autonomous Systems Laboratory, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
  Develops program analysis and reverse engineering techniques to support evolution in embedded systems, including portable multimedia systems, autonomous control systems, and sensor networks.
• Healthcare Robotics Lab, School of Biomedical Engineering
  Seeking to develop robots that improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare through innovations in autonomous robot manipulation and human-robot interaction
• Humanoid Robotics Lab, College of Computing
  Targeted towards improving the capabilities of humanoids beyond the capacity of humans.
• Human Automation Systems Laboratory, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
  Centered around the concept of humanized intelligence, the process of embedding human cognitive capability into the control path of autonomous systems.
• Human Vision Simulation Laboratory, Georgia Tech Research Institute.
• Intelligent Machines Dynamics Laboratory, School of Mechanical Engineering.
  Strives to understand and improve the dynamic behavior of machines for and through the use of control, sensors, and design.
• Laboratory for Neuroengineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
  Advancing our understanding of fundamental neural processes such as neural repair and regeneration, sensory-motor integration, hybrid neural systems and computational dynamics in the nervous system.
• The Mobile Robot Lab, College of Computing.
  Chartered to discover and develop fundamental scientific principles and practices that are applicable to intelligent mobile robot systems.
• Robotic Mechanisms Laboratory, School of Mechanical Engineering.
• Socially Intelligent Machines, College of Computing.
  Aimed toward enabling robots with the capacity to interact with humans in a social and dynamic capacity.
• The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Research Facility (UAV Lab), School of Aerospace Engineering.
  Dedicated to investigating flight controls, avionics, and software systems required for unmanned flight.
• Virtual Factory Laboratory, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
  Developing detailed models to support system design and operation and to test different system configurations and control policies, in short to manipulate all system features which impact performance without disrupting the actual system.