CS482: Robotics - May 2003
Chris Hardie - Department of Computer Science - Earlham College
Sample
Research Paper Topics
A list of example topics you could
choose from for your research paper.
- History of Robotics
- Artificial Intelligence
- Applications for robotics / robots
- Sensors and Feedback Control
- Range Sensing
- Temperature Sensing
- Proximity Sensing
- Force and Torque Sensing
- Robotic Contests and Competitions
- Social / Philosophical implications of creating robotic creatures
- LEGO Mindstorms
- Robotics in the space program
- Robotics in law enforcement
- Self-reconfiguring robots
- Neural networks and robotics
- Web/Internet-connected robots
- Multitasking control strategies
- Robotics in popular culture
- Robots as educational tools for young children
- Anthropomorphizing robots
- Robotics / robots in the visual arts
- Robots as models for animal behavior
- Mechanical construction with LEGOs
- Robot-oriented programming languages
- Path planning
- Probabilistic roadmaps
- Lazy roadmaps
- Medial axis planning
- Distributed robotics design / programming