About Us

The conducted research of Intelligent and Mobile Robotics Group (IMR) is focused on design and development of intelligent mobile robots - self-guided vehicles. The overall goal is to develop a highly robust cognitive control system for this kind of robots and to bring novel ideas into particular solutions. For central tasks are considered: sensing of the environment, sensor data processing and data understanding, all leading towards automated world model building and/or updating. The used knowledge representations of the world are designed and optimized for planning of robot activities and for self-navigation in real (indoor) environments. As such system requires highly complex control and decision-making the crucial parts is always the sensing and sensor data understanding.

Success Stories

The SyRoTek was successfully lunched. SyRoTek allows to remotely control a multi-robot platform via internet. Try SyRoTek on-line.

A robot of IMR repeatedly passed 1km path using a visual navigation with 0.3 m precision in outdoor environment. See navigation page for details on SURFNAV approach.

Adaptive heliport was integrated into our UAV-UGV system. Now, UAVs can repeatedly land and take-off from UGVs. See swarm page for details.

Experiment emulating airport snow shoveling was successfully realized with mobile robots of IMR. Besides, novel concepts of formation driving were verified. See swarm page for details.

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Events

May 10^th, 2012

Visit of prof. Sheldon Glashow - the Nobel Prize laureate in Physics 1979.

April 25^th-27^th, 2012

Kick-off Workshop of Robots underpinning future NATO operations (task group SAS-RTG-097).

September 19^th, 2011 - May 31^th, 2012

Antti Juhani Riksman from Aalto University School of Science and Technology (Espoo, Finland) is pursuing towards his Master thesis at IMR under co-supervisor Martin Saska.

March 19^th, 2012

Invated talk of William Regli at Department of Cybernetics. William Regli is the associate dean for contract research of the iSchool at Drexel University, USA.

March 6^th- April 24^th, 2012

Short stay of Matias Nitsche, PhD student from Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina within the scope of MŠMT project Kontakt (joint Czech-Argentina project). The scientific objective: Adapting methods of ground robot spatial cognition for the purposes of micro UAV autonomous navigation.

March 19^th- April 3^rd, 2012

Short stay of researchers from Drexel University within the scope of HUBO project.

March 19^th-22^nd, 2012

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