Robotics

Robots at work.

Robotics is a huge research area.

We are mainly involved in autonomous robots, mobile robots, bio-inspired robots, SLAM, service robots, edutainment and entertainment robots.

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Project Proposals

If you are a student and you are looking to a project proposal in this area, please click here

Ongoing Projects

Wiki Page: Balancing robots: Tilty, TiltOne

Title: BalancingRobots
Description: Meta-project about balancing robots.
Tutor: MartinoMigliavacca
Additional Info: CFU

Wiki Page: C-SLAM

Title: C-SLAM
Description: Development of a Cognitive SLAM system
Tutor: AndreaBonarini
Additional Info: CFU / Master of Science / Thesis

Wiki Page: Drone Laser Game

Title: Robotic Laser Game
Description: The goal of the project is to develop a laser game between flying drones, one of which autonomous and the other remotely controlled.
Tutor: AndreaBonarini
Additional Info: CFU / Master of Science / Thesis

Wiki Page: E-2? - A robot for exhibitions

Title: E-2? - A robot for exhibitions
Description: A robot to interact with people at an exhibition
Tutor: AndreaBonarini
Additional Info: CFU

Wiki Page: E-2? Body

Title: E-2? Body
Description: Development of a new body for E-2?
Tutor: AndreaBonarini
Additional Info: CFU / Bachelor of Science / Thesis

Wiki Page: E2GoHome

Title: E2GoHome
Description: The goal of the project is to develop a system to bring E-2? home while maintaining a relationship with people that interacts with it.
Tutor: AndreaBonarini
Additional Info: CFU / Master of Science / Thesis

Wiki Page: EKF on Manifolds

Title: EKF on Manifolds
Description: Extended Kalman Filtering operating on Lie Groups
Tutor: DavideCucci
Additional Info: CFU

Wiki Page: Effects of Continuous and Discrete Perception and Decision in Exploration

Title: Effects of Continuous and Discrete Perception and Decision in Exploration
Description: A study of how exploration is affected by employing continuous or discrete perception and decision
Tutor: FrancescoAmigoni
Additional Info: CFU

Wiki Page: Effects of Rates of Perception and Decision in Exploration

Title: Effects of Rates of Perception and Decision in Exploration
Description: A study of how exploration is affected by perception and decision rates
Tutor: FrancescoAmigoni
Additional Info: CFU

Wiki Page: King of the Hill

Title: King of the Hill
Description: Robogame where a robot should conquer hills, and a human player should contrast it
Tutor: AndreaBonarini
Additional Info: CFU / Bachelor of Science / Course

Wiki Page: LURCH - The autonomous wheelchair

Title: LURCH - the autonomous wheelchair
Description: Augmenting commercial electric wheelchairs with autonomous navigation, obstacle avoidance, and multi-modal interfaces
Tutor: SimoneCeriani
Additional Info: CFU

Wiki Page: Laser Game Bot

Title: Laser Game Bot
Description: Laser game between an autonomous robot and a remote controlled robot.
Tutor: AndreaBonarini
Additional Info: CFU / Bachelor of Science / Course

Wiki Page: Low Cost Laser Range Finder

Title: Low Cost Laser Range Finder
Description: Development of a low cost Laser Range Finder
Tutor: AndreaBonarini
Additional Info: CFU / Master of Science / Thesis

Wiki Page: Low-cost IMU

Title: Low-cost IMU
Description: Characterization of a low-cost IMU module developed by AIRLab; use of such module to extract high-level information about human behavior.
Tutor: MartinoMigliavacca, MatteoMatteucci
Additional Info: CFU / Master of Science / Thesis

Wiki Page: Low-cost Robotics

Title: Low-cost Robotics
Description: The project is aimed at developing tools and methodologies to support the design and implementation of low-cost robots, aimed at the mass market.
Tutor: AndreaBonarini
Additional Info: CFU / PhD / Thesis

Wiki Page: MarioKartBot

Title: MarioKartBot
Description: The goal of the project is to develop an interactive game between an autonomous robot and a remotely-controlled one, based on the metaphor of the game Mario Kart.
Tutor: AndreaBonarini
Additional Info: CFU / Master of Science

Wiki Page: Pac-Bot

Title: Pac-Bot
Description: The goal of the project is to develop an interactive game between an autonomous robot and a remotely-controlled one, based on the rules of the well-known Pac-Man game.
Tutor: AndreaBonarini
Additional Info: CFU / Bachelor of Science / Course

Wiki Page: PatrolDrone

Title: PatrolDrone
Description: The goal of the project is to develop a drone able to patrol an indoor ambient to search por intruders
Tutor: AndreaBonarini
Additional Info: CFU / Master of Science

Wiki Page: R2P

Title: R2P
Description: The goal of the project is to develop a HW/SW system for rapid prototyping of robots
Tutor: AndreaBonarini, MatteoMatteucci
Additional Info: CFU

Wiki Page: RPSSLBot

Title: RPSSLBot
Description: The goal of the project is to develop a game starting with a Rock-Paper-Sissors-Spock-Lizard game to decide the role of prey or predator.
Tutor: AndreaBonarini
Additional Info: CFU / Bachelor of Science / Course

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Past Projects

Some of the finished projects in this area are listed below:

ROS Tutorials

ROS is a framework for the creation of software for robots, providing many useful tools and modules. We are using it with some of our robots. Go to our ROS HOWTO page for advice and tutorials.

From AIRWiki

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