UWEE Faculty
Robert Albrecht
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Robert Albrecht Professor Emeritus Controls and Robotics M410 EE/CSE Box 352500 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 |
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Phone: (206) 685-1600 E-mail: bob@ee.washington.edu |
University of Michigan 1961 Ph.D
University of Michigan 1958 MS
Purdue University 1957 BSEE
Honors
Mark Mills Award (for outstanding paper, ANS) 1961
Fulbright-Hays Grant for travel to Europe 1967
Outstanding Educators of America 1972
ANS Outstanding Paper 1972
Fellow of the American Nuclear Soc. 1974
NSF Scientific Visit to Brazil 1977
NORCUS Fellowship 1989
ANS Certificate of Governance 1987-88
CEA (France) stipend 1995
CEA + French Embassy; Travel grant 1995
Research Interests
Autonomous Mobile Robotics with emphasis on integration of vehicles, sensors, control, logic, and supervisory systems to achieve autonomous performances within built architectures.
Mobile Robotics Lab: http://www.ee.washington.edu/research/mobile/
Selected Publications
M. Masliah, R. W. Albrecht, "The Mobile Robot Surrogate Method for Developing Autonomy", IEEE transactions on robotics and automation, Vol. 14, No. 2, 314-320, April 1998.
"Analysis of Mechanical Bowing Phenomena of Fuel Assemblies in Passively Safe Advanced Liquid Metal Reactors," with R.G. Reinhall, K. Park, Nuclear Technology, Vol. 83, pp 197-204, 1988.
"A Resonant Cavity Level Measurement Technique for Use with Gas Enhancement Modules in Liquid-Metal Reactors", (with D.R. Smith), Nuclear Technology, 79, pp. 35-50, 1987.
"Comments on 'Statistical Characteristics of Incipient Two-Phase Noise for Reactor Diagnosis'" (with S. A. Wright) Nuclear Technology, 62, pp. 116- 117, 1983.
Recent Conference Papers
R. W. Albrecht, V. Moore, R. Gelin, P. Morganti, M. Masliah, Motion Generation for Teleoperated Remote Mobile Robots, World Automation Conference, May 1998.
Mach, Roman, Albrecht, R. W.; "A Mobile Robot Programming Language Directed by an Expert System" Robotics and Manufacturing, 5: 170-173, 1992.
R. W. Albrecht, "Mobile Robots: A Paradigm for Complex System Engineering", Robotics and Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp 27-33, 1992.
B. L. Aldridge, R. W. Albrecht, "An Expert System Surveyor for Mobile Robots: Translation of CAD to Knowledge Base Models", Proceedings of the CAD/CAM, Robotics, and Factories of the Future Conference, Metz, France, August, 1992.
R. W. Albrecht, "An Expert System Cartographer for mobile Robots", Proceedings of Thirteenth IASTED International Symposium, Robotics and Manufacturing, 1990.
Active Grants
"Security Robot Collaboration", SECOM Ltd., PI, 9/94 – indefinite
Recent Graduate Students
Victor Moore Multi Robot Cooperation (continuing student: passed General Exam in Spring 1997, still working on dissertation; expected completion Winter 2000)
1999 Frank Metting (EE) Quadruped Robot Simulation