This project aims at stepping forward to the development of personal robots able to serve elder people at home, who can benefit gaining in independence and quality of life. In this context, the research work will address some of the drawbacks found in the current robotic prototypes, like reliability and safety in home environments, proactivity…

Olfaction is a valuable source of information about the environment that has not been sufficiently exploited in mobile robotics yet. We claim that data provided by e-noses may have an important added-value when combined with other sensing modalities (particularly, vision), and also when olfaction is integrated into the robot high-level processes. This project aims at…

The Giraff+ project aims at developing a system consisting of a network of home sensors that can be automatically configured to collect data for a range of monitoring services; a semi-autonomous telepresence robot; a sophisticated context recognition system that can give high-level and long term interpretations of the collected data and respond to certain events;…

Despite the significant progress in mobile robotics in the last years there are still major technical questions to be solved before having real autonomous robots at home. This project addresses some of them which, being not exclusive for this kind of scenario, acquire particular relevance here because of the importance of interacting with (non-expert) humans,…

The main objective of ExCITE project is to evaluate user requirements of social interaction that enables embodiment through robotic telepresence. This evaluation is performed in situ, on a PanEuropean scale and with a longitudinal perspective. An existing prototype is deployed to the targeted endusers, and is refined by tightly involving the users in the development cycles of…

This project addresses the remote control of mobile robots in situations where some components of the system are non-deterministic in time or incompletely modelled. These components include the communication network, the robot hardware and the software used in all the parts of the system (operating systems, middleware, applications). The fundamental problem with unpredictable components is…

This project addresses the problem of providing a mobile robot with olfaction capability to recognize and estimate odor concentrations in the environment. This information, combined with that provided by other sensors (cameras, laser scanner, etc..) will be used in robot navigation and operation tasks in applications such as monitoring and controlling of abnormal levels of…

Map building is undoubtedly one of the pillars for mobile robot autonomous operation. In practice, since the world is not completely known and/or is dynamic, the mapping process is inevitable coupled to robot localization, and as a result, both problems must be addressed jointly (the SLAM problem). In this project we aim at the construction…

Una de las operaciones que habitualmente deben realizar los técnicos durante la perforación de un túnel, y en general en cualquier obra, es el replanteo. Replantear tiene por objeto trasladar fielmente al terreno las dimensiones y formas indicadas en la documentación técnica de la obra. Para el caso particular de la construcción de túneles, mediante el replanteo…

El objetivo de este proyecto es el desarrollo de un sistema basado en vehículos automatizados que permitan realizar un análisis integral del estado de las carreteras en diversos aspectos, incluyendo: el estado de deterioro del firme, medidas cuantitativas y precisas sobre su deformación, y un inventario de los elementos susceptibles de mantenimiento existentes, como señales de tráfico,…