Office
Mechanical Engineering Complex, Building M, Basement
Phone
+30-210-772-1726
Research Area
Mobile Robots
The Mobile Robotics group endows moving mobile platforms with the capability of distinguishing between static background and dynamic foreground, and develops cooperative perception methods. Research areas include human walking detection, tracking moving objects, and multi-robot environmental perception in populated indoor settings.
Personnel
- Post-Doc Associate: George Karras
- Undergraduate Students: Panagiotis Vlantis, Apostolis Poulias
Equipment
youBot (KUKA)
- Omnidirectional mobile platform with 5-axis arm
- PC running Linux, Ethernet/WiFi, EtherCAT interface
- Position/velocity/torque controllers
- 0.5 kg payload
- Lab has 2 units for cooperative manipulation research
Pioneer 2 AT (ActivMedia)
- All-terrain outdoor platform
- Linux embedded computer
- Sonar sensors, inertial navigation
- 0.8 m/s speed, 30 kg payload
- Lab has 1 unit for large-scale outdoor experiments
LMS 200 Laser Rangefinder (SICK)
- 180° coverage, 10 mm resolution
- 0.25° minimum angular resolution
- Up to 75 Hz scanning, 80 m range
- Lab has 3 units for localization and mapping
VC-C4 Robotic Camera (Canon)
- PTZ: 200° pan, 120° tilt
- 16× optical zoom, 380,000 effective pixels
- Object detection and environment perception
AIBO ERS-7 (Sony)
- Robotic pet platform for AI research
- 64-bit RISC processor (576 MHz), 64 MB RAM
- 20 DoF, WiFi
- Quadruped gait and reactive behavior research