I have a number of projects available for undergraduate research projects. The complete list is available here.

CARMEN

CARMEN an open-source collection of software for mobile robot control. CARMEN is modular software designed to provide basic navigation primatives including: base and sensor control, obstacle avoidance, localization, path planning, people-tracking, and mapping.

Nursebot

The project PERSONAL ROBOTIC ASSISTANTS FOR THE ELDERLY is an inter-disciplinary multi-university research initiative focused on robotic technology for the elderly that brings together researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University.

The goal of our project is to develop mobile, personal service robots that assist elderly people suffering from chronic disorders in their everyday life. We are currently developing anautonomous mobile robot that "lives" in a private home of a chronically ill elderly person. The robot provides a research platform to test out a range of ideas for assisting elderly people.

GRACE

In the fall of 2001, a group of researchers from several universities, colleges, and research institutions decided to pool their resources and tackle the AAAI Robot Challenge in July of 2002. The 2002 group includes students, faculty, and researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, the Naval Research Laboratory, Metrica Inc., Northwestern University, and Swarthmore College.

On July 31st, 2002, at the Shaw Conference Center in Edmonton, Alberta, GRACE successfully completed all of the tasks in the challenge.

Minerva was an interactive museum tour-guide robot, deployed in one of the largest museum in the US: The Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, DC, in the fall of 1998. Minerva operated in the center area of the museum's st floor, guiding visitors through a decade-old exhibition known as Material World. Figure 1 shows a panoramic view of the exhibition's main area. The robot's task involved attracting people and explaining to them the various exhibits while guiding them through the museum. The robot also enabled remote users to visit the museum through a Web link. This link allowed people to watch images collected in the museum, and to control the robot's operation. During its 14 day-long deployment, Minerva traversed more than 44 km through crowds of people, giving 620 tours to people and visiting more than 2,600 exhibits.

This isn't really a project, but I hate GNOME's window manager Metacity, because it won't let you move windows above the top of the screen. I would happily use WindowMaker or AfterStep, but none of them seem to work out of the box with modern distros. I never should have abandoned FVWM. At the end of the day, it turned out to be easier to modify Mark Draheim's patch for Metacity 2.5.5 so that it worked in 2.8.1 than it was to get out from under the Mandrake or Redhat GNOME installs. This link gets you a patch for Metacity 2.8.1 that will let you move windows off the top of the screen.