Bruce Randall Donald
Associate Professor
brd@cs.cornell.edu

Ph.D. MIT, 1987

I have moved to Dartmouth. Please visit my new home page there.

Job openings in my lab at Dartmouth.

This webpage was last updated in July, 1997. Please visit my new home page, which may be more current.


Teaching

In Spring 1997, I taught CS 212, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. I also teach Robotics, Robotics and Machine Vision, and other courses.


Cornell Robotics and Vision Laboratory

Dan Huttenlocher and I founded the Cornell Robotics and Vision Laboratory in 1991.


Research

Our Laboratory serves as an umbrella for interdisciplinary research in several interlocking sub-disciplines. The field of Physical Geometric Algorithms studies computational processes that compute or reason about geometric or spatial relationships in the physical world, and their realization in a variety of application areas. These areas include Robotics, Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS), and Computer Graphics. In the canonical examples of Physical Algorithms, we employ a computer to control a physical device in the world--- for example, one may imagine a computer-controlled robot arm or mobile robot. Our laboratory pursues the value proposition that, for such systems, predictions of behavior, arguments of correctness, and combinatorial precision devolve to a geometric analysis.

The Laboratory studies and develops Physical Geometric Algorithms in three domains:


Demos


Hot Off The Presses (Preprints)

Selected Recent Publications

Other Publications.

Recent Theses and Papers of PhD Students

Post-Docs Trained in Our Lab


More papers are avalable through the Cornell CS TR server.
Some other papers are listed here.

Cornell CS TR version of my Online Tech Reports
Cornell Library Catalog
CS TR index

Obtaining Copies of Papers

Copies of our papers are available via anonymous FTP.

Pictures

We have developed a team of small autonomous mobile robots that can move furniture around in our lab.

  • <--- Click here for a group portrait of our robots.

  • Click here to see a picture of Tommy and Lily mobot pushing a couch.

  • Click here to see a picture of Tommy and Lily rotating a couch.

  • Click here to see a picture of Tommy the mobile robot, drawn by Loretta Pompilio.

  • Click here to see pictures of people and robots working in the lab.


  • In the News.

  • See the article on our MEMS work in the New York Times Magazine (March 10, 1996, p. 21)
  • Our lab was on The Discovery Channel ("Beyond 2000") and you can find out more about it here.

    Fun

    A Poem by Alfred, the Mail Agent.

    Family Pictures.

    More

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    "You will have the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood."

    --- Merian C. Cooper to Fay Wray