Ken Goldberg: Research Grants

Total Sponsored Research: $11,642,000

• $67,500. Unrestricted Research Grant. Google Research Award. Starting Feb 2013.

• $107,000. Unrestricted Research Grant. CISCO Research Award. Starting Feb 2013.

• $50,000. Research Grant. Knight Foundation. Starting Jan 2013.

• $7,500. Research Grant. NSF/Mozilla Ignite Foundation. Starting Jan 2013.

• $3,535,000. Multilateral Manipulation by Human-Robot Collaborative Systems (NSF Award IIS-1227406)
  (Subcontract to UC Berkeley, $1,168,000 : IIS-1227536). Four-Year NSF Research Project under the National Robotics Initiative. Allison Okamura (Stanford University), Pieter Abbeel and Ken Goldberg (University of California - Berkeley), Greg Hager (Johns Hopkins University), Blake Hannaford (University of Washington), Jacob Rosen (University of California - Santa Cruz). Starting Oct 2012.

• $50,000. Unrestricted Grant. Fujitsu Corp. Starting November 2011.

• $75,000. Unrestricted Grant. General Motors Corp. Starting January 2011.

• $75,000. Unrestricted Grant. UC Berkeley Center for Information Technology in the Interest of Society (CITRI) Seed Grant. Ken Goldberg and Pieter Abbeel, UC Berkeley, Jacob Rosen, UC Santa Cruz, Doug Boyd, UC Davis. Starting May 2011.

• $50,000. Unrestricted Grant. Fujitsu Corp. Starting November 2010.

• $20,000. Unrestricted Grant. Humana Inc. Starting November 2010.

• $15,000. Unrestricted Grant. Unilever Inc. Starting August 2010.

• $50,000. Unrestricted Grant. craigslist.org. Starting Dec 2009.

• $40,000. Creative Work Fund Grant Two-Year Art Grant to work with the Contemporary Jewish Museum. Walter and Elise Haas Fund, SF CA. Starting September 2009.

• $1,359,881. Robust Intelligent Manipulation and Apprenticeship Learning for Robotic Surgical Assistants (NSF Award 0905344) Four-Year NSF Research Project under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. M. Cenk Cavusoglu, Case-Western University, Pieter Abbeel, UC Berkeley, Ron Alterovitz, University of North Carolina, Ken Goldberg, UC Berkeley, and Wyatt S Newman, Case-Western University. Starting August 2009.

• $80,000. Unrestricted Grant. Siemens Corp. Starting November 2007.

• $2,500,000. Steering Flexible Needles through Soft Tissues (NIH Award 1R01EB-006435-01A1) National Institute of Health (NIH) R01 Research Award, Bioengineering, Technology and Surgical Sciences (BTSS) Study Section Four-Year Joint Project with A. Okamura, N. Cowan, G. Chirikjian, G. Fitchtinger at Johns Hopkins University. Starting September 2007.

• $50,000. Unrestricted Grant. Panasonic Corporation. Starting September 2008.

• $240,000. CONE: Collaborative Observatory for Natural Environments (NSF Award 0535218). NSF Robotics Program, Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, Three-Year Joint Project with Dezhen Song at Texas A&M. Starting July 2005.

• $20,000. Unrestricted Grant. Bayer Corp. Starting January 2005.

• $93,103. Intelligent Needle Steering. (Award 8403-66862). NIH National Institute of BioMed Imaging and BioEngineering. Two-Year Joint Project with Allison Okamura and Greg Chirikjian, Subcontract from Johns Hopkins Univ., Starting April 2004.

• $150,000. Collaborative Telepresence for Live Entertainment Events. Intel Research Council. Three-year Award, Nov 2002.

• $80,000. Modular Workholding Tools for Flexible Assembly (Award 2000-403R). Ford Motor Company University Research Project. Three-year Award, March 2001.

• $450,000. ITR/SI: Collaborative Telerobotics: Theory and Scalable Infrastructure. National Science Foundation. Three-year Award, Sept 2001.

• $100,000. Self-Aligning Grippers and Fixtures. National Science Foundation. DMI-0010069. One-year Award beginning January 2001.

• $ 83,516. Project/Proposal Title: CAD / CAM Algorithms and Software for Precision Grasping and Assembly. California State Micro Program with Adept Technologies Match. One Year Award, July 2000.

• $ 1,000 Geometric Techniques for Part Handling, NATO, (with M. Overmars from U. Utrecht), Two-year travel Award, Jan 1998.

• $ 1,134,000 Challenges in CISE: Planning and Control for Massively Parallel Manipulation (Joint with J. Canny and B. Donald (Dartmouth) and L. Kavraki (Rice)), National Science Foundation EIA-9726389,Three-year Award, Sept 1997.

• $ 22,000 Geometric Algorithms for Manufacturing (Joint with JC Latombe and D Halperin), USA-Israel Binational Science (BSF) Foundation Three-year Award, Sept 1997.

• $ 49,000 CISE Postdoctoral Research Associate in Experimental Computer Science: Design and Simulation of Algorithms and Mechanisms for Precision Assembly (funding for research associate position of Karl Bohringer), National Science Foundation, Two-year Award, Jan 1997.

• $ 120,000 Creativity Extension of Award for Reduced Complexity Manipulation with the Parallel-Jaw Gripper, National Science Foundation, Two-year Award, Jun 1996.

• $ 1,000 Geometric Techniques for Part Handling, NATO, (with M. Overmars from U. Utrecht), Two-year travel Award, Jan 1996.

• $ 375,000 Presidential Faculty Fellowship: Geometric Algorithms for Reduced Complexity Manufacturing and Assembly, National Science Foundation, IRI-9553197, Four-year Award, Dec 1995 (see NYI below).

• $ 87,500 NSF Young Investigator: Design Tools for Modular Automation, National Science Foundation, Five-year Award, August, 1994. (replaced by PFF award after one year.)

• $ 75,000 Research in Geometric Simplification, General Motors Research, Nov 1994, renewed Nov 1995.

• $ 130,000 Rapid Deployment Automation, (with Brian Carlisle of Adept Technology, Inc. and John Craig of Silma, Inc.), California State Office of Competitive Technology: One-year research Award (with 3:1 match from industry) May, 1994. Total Project: \$ 1,000,000.

• $ 3,500 Powell Foundation Equipment Award, (with G. Bekey and A. Requicha and B. Khoshnevis), May, 1994, for the undergraduate robotics teaching lab.

• $ 38,000 Southern California Coalition for Education in Manufacturing Education, Coalition of five Los Angeles area Universities, (including G. Bekey and A. Requicha and B. Khoshnevis and others), Technology Reinvestment Program: Two-year Award, April, 1994. Total Project: \$ 4,000,000.

• $ 151,000 Automatic Design and Assembly of Fixtures Using Modular Components, (with A. Requicha and G. Bekey and L. King), National Science Foundation, Strategic Manufacturing Initiative, DDM-9215362: Three-year Award, September, 1992. Total Award: \$607,012.

• $ 315,000 Reduced Complexity Manipulation with the Parallel-Jaw Gripper, National Science Foundation, IRI-9123747: Three-year Award, July, 1992.

• $ 14,400 Workshop on Geometric Uncertainty and Motion Planning, (with A. Requicha and M. Mason), National Science Foundation, IRI-9208161, March, 1992.

• $ 20,000 A Sensor-Based Programmable Parts Feeder, USC Zumberge Faculty Research Initiation Award: one-year Award, July, 1991.