Ken Goldberg

Professor

Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University, 1990
Computer Science

4189 Etcheverry Hall
(510) 643-9565
E-mail: goldbergieor.berkeley.edu

Personal Webpage:
http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg

"My students and I are a developing science base for automated assembly byanalyzing its basic components. We are developing efficient algorithmsfor feeding, fixturing, grasping, and assembly. We are also active inresearch on Internet Telerobotics and Collaborative Filtering."

Ken Goldberg is Professor of IEOR and EECS at UC Berkeley. He graduated from UPenn in 1984 and completed his PhD in CS from CMU in 1990. He also studied at Edinburgh University and the Technion. From 1991-95 he taught at USC and in Fall 2000 was visiting faculty at MIT. Goldberg and his students work in two areas: geometric algorithms for manufacturing, and system design for Online Robots. He's interested in minimalist approaches that reduce costs and improve reliability. He serves on the RAS Advisory Committee. In May 2001, he co-founded the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Online Robots. Goldberg received the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award in 1994, the NSF Presidential Faculty Fellowship in 1995, the Joseph Engelberger Award for Robotics Education in 2000, and the IEEE Major Educational Innovation Award in 2001.

Current research projects, classes, and research papers can be found at:

http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg

Research
  • Robotics & Manufacturing
  • Geometric Algorithms
  • Internet Applications & Collaborative FilteringRetrieval
Publications
Ph.D. Theses Supervised
  • Dr. Mike Tao Zhang. Optimal Design of Self-Aligning Robot Gripper Jaws. UC
    Berkeley IEOR Dept, 2001.
  • Dr. Hadi Moradi. Force Based Assembly Planning and Grouping For Compiling
    Assembly Plans. USC Computer Science Dept, 1999.
  • Dr. Jeff Wiegley. Sorting Convex Polygonal Parts Without Sensors On A
    Conveyor. USC Computer Science Dept, 1998.
  • Dr. Richard Jeffrey Wagner. Strut Fixtures: Modular Synthesis and
    Efficient Algorithms. USC Computer Science Dept, 1997.
  • Dr. Dukhun Kang. Efficient Learning of RISC Sensor-Based Manipulation
    Plans. USC Computer Science Dept, 1995.
  • Dr. Kyeonah Yu. Loading Sensor-Based Fixtures with Compliant Motions. USC
    Computer Science Dept, 1995.
  • Dr. Anil Rao. Algorithmic Plans for Robotic Manipulation. 1992 USC
    Electrical Engineering Dept, 1992.