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

March 19th- April 3rd, 2012

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

March 19th-22nd, 2012

Visit of William Regli, the associate dean for contract research of the iSchool at Drexel University.

January 16th, 2012

IMR successfuly organized worshop on Robot Companions for Citizens within the frame of EU Flagship project proposal. For more details http://www.robotcompanions.eu/. Presentations of Miroslava Kopicova (First Deputy Chair of the National Council for Research, Development and Innovation) and many others can be found here.

December 1st, 2011

Karel Košnar successfully defended his PhD thesis, Theme: Robot Mapping for Large Environments

November 17th-30th, 2011

Short research stay of reserchers from IMR at Universidad de Buenos Aires within joint project Cognitive learning autonomous robots for services.

November 09th, 2011

Excursion in the Prague's collectors.



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