Autonomous Robots

Mobile robotics is one of the cornerstones of the MAPIR research. Our work includes (but is not limited to) a variety of fields like robot mapping and localization, robot task planning and world modelling, human-robot interaction, etc.

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  Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are self-sufficient aerial robots equipped with sensors and an onboard computer to execute tasks such as reconnaissance flights.
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  Localization & Mapping
  We have contributed in areas like robot localization, particle filtering applied to SLAM, scan matching and hybrid and metric representations with excellent results.
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  Human-Robot Interaction
  Robots are increasingly present in modern human societies. This rises a number of specific issues related to the interaction between machines and persons. We have worked in several lines on this topic.
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  Reactive Navigation
  We address purely reactive methods that take into account the 3D robot shape, its nonholonomic constraints and different path models.
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  Telepresence Robotics
  Telepresence robots are teleoperated robotic systems that allow a user to virtually visit a remote place and interact with the environment through its sensorial and motor capabilities.