DPRG mailing list archives: [DPRG] Robotics Universities

Thu Dec 14 13:12:49 CST 2006

UT Arlington has two major robotics groups. One is an autonomous
vehicles lab which does both ground and air vehicles, and the
off campus research site, Atomation and Robotic Research
Institute. Dr. Brian Huff is an occassional club participant.
He's from the industrial engineering department, and his
graduate students do it all, mech, programming, design,
everything.

I teach robotics at UNI in the Physics Department, long distance
over the internet. It's part of their digital electronics
training. We cover the physics principles in the semiconductors,
the design of the circuits, microprocessors, programming, and
the EM forces in the actuators. In short, robotics is too broad
a subject to be approached from only one discipline. It's fine
to specialize in some field, like mechanics, or in electronics,
but it won't make you a roboticist. You need a much broader
exposure. Consequently, it is not possible to predict which
department to look into to find the best robotics classes.

I haven't heard of much robotics at UTB, or UTD, SMU, althought
the club does have members from those organizations. Are you
thinking of going out of state?

Randy
www.newmicros.com

Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 12:52 PM
To: 'Austin Robotgroup Mailing List'; dprglist at dprg.org
Subject: [DPRG] Robotics Universities

Hello, it seems like I'm going to a university real soon, I was
wandering what is a good robotics university? And when I go for
it while it only be mechs. Or will there also be programming?

Thanks in Advance,

Mohammad

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