IDSIA Robotics Laboratory

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Introduction

The IDSIA robotics lab was founded in 2007. It is a laboratory to apply artificial intelligence methods to various types of real robots: mobile robots, manipulating robots, and humanoid robots. We have demonstrated our competence in applied machine learning and swarm itelligence in miscellaneous projects, e.g. Swarmanoid, IM-CLeVeR.

Here is a nice video showing what is going on in our lab.

Location

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Galleria 1, 2nd floor, 6928 Manno. Shortest and simplest way: Staircase D (backside of Galleria 1). SUPSI DTI and DSAN is written on the entrance door on the second floor. Official way: Main entrance, but it is a maze challenge to find the lab. Here is a larger map with place marks on all IDSIA related entrances in Galleria 1. Click on one place mark to read more about an entrance.

Impressions

Lab entrance 2nd floor

A running experiment

The beautiful outlook from the lab

More are coming soon.

Equipment

Our robots

We have a bunch of different robots. The following images will give you an overview. Of course, we have more than one robot of each type.

Pioneer with SICK LRF

Pioneer with Katana

Katana

Lego

Bioloid

FIRA robot

Another FIRA robot

E-Puck with ground sensor

E-Puck with IR R&B module

Robertino

iCub

Foot-bot

Hand-bot

Eye-bot

Other parts

Additionally, we have various sensors (cameras, laser range finders, inertial measurement unit, and so on) currently not mounted on robot bases.

Projects

PhD theses

Jürgen Leitner, Towards Adaptive and Autonomous Humanoid Robots -- From Vision to Actions, 2014.
Mikail Frank, Learning To Reach and Reaching To Learn -- A Unified Approach to Path Planning and Reactive Control through Reinforcement Learning, 2014.

Master theses

Yuval Sharon, Prototype Robot for Robocup@home (video), 2009.
Stefano Morgani, Computer Aided Reconnaissance and Surveillance, 2009.
Gregor Kaufmann, A Flexible and Safe Environment for Robotic Experiments, 2010.
Jose Nicolás Velásquez Orozco, Monocular camera based real-time on-board obstacle avoidance for unmanned aerial vehicles, 2014.

Bachelor theses

Christine Graff, Drone Piloting Study, 2014.
Margarita Grinwald, iWheel -- Towards an autonomous navigation of a Wheelphone robot, 2014.

Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)

Stefano Morgani, Simple Robot Programming Interface for educational use with a checker playing robot as demonstration, 2008.
Athos Ghiggi, Reconstructing robot after earthquake in a block world (video), 2009.
Gregor Kaufmann, Healing robot swarm, 2009.

Your thesis at USI

You can find possible student research projects (Bachelor and Master) at the iCorsi2 internal learning platform (only for USI students). Here is an overview for people without access to USI's intranet.

Please, have also a look on IDSIA's robotics channel.

Last change November 2014, Alexander Förster