Robotics

Click here for a brief description of the Research Area, taken from the AIRLab website.

Click here for a brief description of the Research Area, taken from the AIRLab website.

Projects

Robotics projects are listed in the Projects page.

You can also find other currently active projects here and the archive of our past projects here

• Robot development

  • Adaptive Behaviors for Robogames (Adaptive Behaviors for Robogames)
  • Emotional Bioinspired Control (Emotional Bioinspired Control)
  • Teo Interactive (Teo_Interactive)
  • SmallBasketBot (SmallBasketBot)
  • EmotionalLamp (EmotionalLamp)
  • Autonomous Robot for emotional interaction (Autonomous Robot for emotional interaction)
  • Crocobot (Crocobot)
  • ViRHaS (ViRHaS)
  • RoboTheatre (RoboTheatre)
  • People tracking by heat sensor (People tracking by heat sensor)
  • Flipperbot (Flipperbot)
  • RunRun (RunRun)
  • Skunky (Skunky)
  • TARO Table Robot (TARO Table Robot)
  • EmotionalSoundExpression (Emotional Sound Expression)
  • Triskar (Triskar)
  • ROGER (ROGER)
  • Cestino (Cestino)
  • Robot head (Friendship Robot)
  • DiffDrivePlanner (Search-based Differential Drive Planner)
  • … further results

• Benchmarking

  • Rawseeds (Rawseeds)

• Bio Robotics

  • Control of Whitefinger (Control of Whitefinger)
  • PolyGlove: a body-based haptic interface (PolyGlove: a body-based haptic interface)
  • CPG for Warugadar (CPG for Warugadar)
  • Zoidberg II, powering robot fish (Zoidberg II, powering robot fish)
  • ZOIDBERG - An autonomous bio-inspired Robotic fish (ZOIDBERG - An autonomous bio-inspired Robotic fish)

• Semantic Wikis

  • GeoOntology (Geographic Ontology for a semantic wiki)
  • BinaryTags (Binary tag system for the creation of relations in a semantic wiki)
  • SeManTik (Semantic management of attachments inside a wiki engine)
  • SandboxIkeWiki (A sandbox ontology system for the semantic wiki IkeWiki)
  • Semantic wiki extensions with context ontologies (Semantic wiki extensions with context ontologies)
  • Design and development of a semantic wiki engine (Design and development of a semantic wiki engine)
  • Extending a wiki with semantic templates (Extending a wiki with semantic templates)

• Semantic Annotations

  • A tool to find and store annotations into a unifying semantic ontology (A tool to find and store annotations into a unifying semantic ontology)
  • Firefox Extension for Semantic Annotation (Firefox Extension for Semantic Annotation)
  • SpeakinAbout (Speakin' About - a tool for semantic annotation of text documents)
  • A Unifying Framework for Semantic Annotation (A Unifying Framework for Semantic Annotation)

• Semantic Filesystems

  • TaggyFS (TaggyFS)
  • JOFS (Java Ontology for File Storage)

• Description Logics

  • OWLIE (A Web application for collaborative editing of ontologies)
  • Description Logics Extensions (A fuzzy description logics temporal extension)

Project Proposals

• Designing Living Objects (Designing Living Objects)
• ROS navigation local planner (ROS_navigation_local_planner)
• 3D Scene Understanding (3D Indoor scene understanding and layout reconstruction for a mobile robot in collaboration with UnimiB)
• Autistic Children Play Robot (Autistic Children Play Robot)
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Visual Navigation (A critical review on the state of the art in visual navigation for unmanned aerial vehicles)
• Cognitive SLAM (Cognitive SLAM)
• MoonSLAM Reengineering (Reengineering of a flexible framework for simultaneous localization and mapping)
• Automatic Differentiation Techniques for Real Time Kalman Filtering (Evaluation of Automatic Differentiation Techniques for Gauss-Newton based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping)
• R2P IMU firmware development (Embedded Inertial Measurement Unit for Unmanned Aerial Vehihcles)
• Simulation in robotics using UDK USARSIM (Simulation_in_robotics_using_UDK_USARSIM)
• BringMeHome (BringMeHome)
• Robocentric MoonSLAM (Robocentric implementation in the MoonSLAM framework)
• Extended Kalman Filtering on Manifolds (Extended Kalman Filtering on Manifolds)
• Self calibration of multiple odometric sensors (Self calibration of multiple odometric sensors mounted on the same platform)
• Scan Matching Odometry and Multisensor SLAM (Scan Matching Odometry and Multisensor SLAM)
• CAN Bus bootloader for STM32 microcontrollers (CAN Bus bootloader for STM32 microcontrollers)
• Barking Robots (Barking Robots)
• LCM middleware on embedded platform (LCM middleware on embedded platform)
• Embedded registers view plug-in for Eclipse (Embedded registers view plug-in for Eclipse)
• Scripting language on embedded platforms (Scripting language on embedded platforms)
• … further results

People

• AlbertoQuattriniLi
• AlessioFranchi
• AndreaBonarini
• AndreaSemprebon
• DarioCattaneo
• DavideCucci
• DavideMigliore
• DavideRizzi
• DavideTateo
• EwertonLopes
• FlavioMutti
• FrancescoAmigoni
• FrancescoVisin
• GiulioFontana
• GiuseppinaGini
• JulianMauricioAngelFernandez
• LinLi
• LuigiMalago
• MarcelloRestelli
• MartinoMigliavacca
• … further results

External resources

Theories and useful algorithms

• Mathematical representations of Rotations