A: Robot Reports

Robot Statistics and Market Penetration Actuation Systems Sensors for Industrial Robots. Note:The three abovementioned reports must be prepared using this template.

B: Literature Survey Paper

Students will pick a robotics problem that interests them. The students will be asked to put themselves in the shoes of authors of a conference or a journal survey paper. They are supposed to search the literature for approaches to tackle this problem. Then they survey and discuss the relative strengths of each approach. The paper will be 4-6 pages. Student must comply strictly with the formatting instructions using the IEEE template, which can be downloaded from here.

C: Paper Critics

The students must pick one of the papers available in Journal of Robotics as an open access journal. The paper must be related to Industrial Robotics, Robotic Arms or Mechanical Manipulators. The students will be asked to put themselves in the shoes of a reviewer for a conference or journal. They should give constructive feedback to the authors. They will mention also the good and weak aspects of the paper. For every criticism, students will make a suggestion to improve the paper. Paper Critics form must be used.