CSCI 4969/6965 Project Ideas

Projects involving expensive hardware

• Mobile robot pushing, planning and experiments.
• Haptic interaction with a dynamic virtual environment with rigid bodies.

Hands-on projects not involving expensive hardware

• Analyze, design, and build, a trebuchet to throw a professor across the football field. Demonstrate using an orange instead of a professor (they are too busy).
• Analyze, design, build, and demonstrate a boomerang.

Project without an experimental component

• Perform a literature survey in an area of manipulation planning. Implement a few planners and compare them on a suite of problems.
• Implement a rigid body dynamics engine capable of simulating