Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics
The Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR) is a hub for innovative and interdisciplinary robotics engineering, research, and development.
More detailed requirements for students enrolling at JHU for Fall 2025 will be available on this page when the JHU e-Catalogue is published in early July.
Overview
The Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR) is one of the most technologically advanced robotics research centers worldwide, and is an international leader in the areas of medical robotics, autonomous systems, and bio-inspiration. Within Johns Hopkins, a premiere research university, the LCSR is a hub for innovative and interdisciplinary robotics engineering, research, and development. The LCSR brings a core group of scholars and students from the Whiting School of Engineering together with researchers from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and the Kennedy Krieger Institute to focus on the common purpose of creating knowledge and fostering innovation.
Programs
Minor in Computer Integrated Surgery
The Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR) offers an interdisciplinary minor in computer integrated surgery (CIS). To complete the minor in CIS, you will work with an advisor from the LCSR. The minor is particularly well-suited for students interested in computer integrated surgery issues who are majoring in a variety of disciplines, including biomedical engineering (BME), computer science (CS), computer engineering (CompE), electrical engineering (EE), and mechanical engineering (ME). To satisfy the requirements for the minor in CIS, you must have a fundamental background in computer programming and computer science.
Required fundamental mathematics courses include Calculus I, II, III, and Linear Algebra. Moving beyond the foundation, you will take at least six courses directly related to concepts relevant to CIS, including Computer Integrated Surgery I. Other course choices include courses in imaging, such as Computer Vision, Image Processing and Analysis, and Medical Imaging Systems; and courses in robotics, such as Robotic Sensors and Actuators, Mechatronics, and Algorithms for Sensor Based Robotics.
For more information, visit the Computer Integrated Surgery minor page on the LCSR website.
Minor in Robotics
The Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR) offers a robotics minor that helps undergraduate students at Johns Hopkins University advance their knowledge in robotics. Any student from any department within the university can work toward the minor. To complete the minor in Robotics, you will work with an advisor from LCSR.
Robotics is fundamentally integrative and multidisciplinary. Therefore, any candidate for the robotics minor must cover a set of core skills that cut across these disciplines, as well as obtain advanced supplementary skills. Core skills include:
- Robot kinematics and dynamics (R)
- Systems theory, signal processing, control (S)
- Computation and sensing (C)
Supplementary advanced skills are obtained in specialized applications – such as space, medicine, or marine systems – or in one of the three core areas listed above.
For more information, visit the Robotics minor page on the LCSR website.
Activities
LCSR hosts the Robotics Club, a group of hackers, engineers, and tinkerers who want to teach the community how to build interesting things. Whether it be software or hardware, the club meets to work on any robotics-related projects the members find interesting, and works to bring robotics to the larger JHU community. Contact: [email protected].
Getting Started
Students interested in the Computer Integrated Surgery minor should make an academic plan to complete the minor using the CIS advising sheet, available on the Computer Integrated Surgery minor page on the LCSR website. Follow the instructions on the page to submit your completed advising sheet to the appropriate parties.
Students interested in the Robotics minor should fill out a minor checklist showing their plan for completing the minor. You can find the checklist and the list of approved courses for the minor on the Robotics minor page on the LCSR website. Follow the instructions in the checklist to send to the appropriate party for declaring a Robotics minor.