Projects

Cooperative Autonomous Robots in Complex and Humans Environments (COACHES)

Public spaces in large cities are becoming unfriendly and unpleasant to use because of the overcrowding and complex information in signboards. It is in the interest of cities to make their public spaces easier to use, friendlier to visitors and safer to increasing elderly population and to citizens with disabilities. The COACHES project addresses fundamental issues related to the design of a robust system of self-directed autonomous robots with high-level skills of environment modelling and scene understanding, distributed autonomous decision-making, short-term interacting with humans and robust and safe navigation in overcrowded spaces.

Active SLAM by Cooperative Sensors in Large Scale Environments

This project is focused on the SLAM problem for large-scale heterogeneous environments by consistently integrating the information provided by visual sensors, proximity sensors and inertial navigation systems, either ported by people or installed in autonomous vehicles. The fundamental goal of the project aims at extending the mathematical understanding, practicality and applicability of SLAM algorithms in key open problems, including large-scale/long-term mapping, active SLAM, consistent sensor cooperation / multivehicle SLAM, and high-level map representations.

Ubiquitous Networking Robotics in Urban Settings (URUS)

The URUS project is a European project whose main objective is to develop a network robot architecture which integrates some functionalities like cooperative localization and navigation, cooperative map building and updating, human-robot interaction, multi-task negotiation and wireless communication between hand held devices, ubiquitous sensors and other robots.