The Prime Minister of Education visiting our Robotics and AI lab

The CoSTAR Team lead by NASA

https://costar.jpl.nasa.gov/

We have wone the second stage of the SUB-T DARPA challenge with the CoSTAR Team lead by NASA

(https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/late-nights-cool-hacks-and-more-stories-from-the-darpa-subt-urban-circuit)

Collaborative SubTerranean Autonomous Robots (CoSTAR) is developing robots that can autonomously explore caves, pits, tunnels and other subsurface terrain. W...

Field Experiments with Autonomous UAVs as part of the CoSTAR participation

Foto: Marcell Koeppe

CoSTAR Team finished 2nd in the world robotics competition at Sub-T

Meet the researchers and engineers who make up the Collaborative SubTerranean Autonomous Resilient Robots team (CoSTAR). Their job is to develop robots that can autonomously explore caves, pits, tunnels and other subsurface terrain. Maybe one day soon, robots can come to the rescue after a disaster or mine accident.

LTU/Robotics Participates in the Sub-T Challenge of DARPA

Underground settings are becoming increasingly relevant to global security and safety. Rising populations and urbanization are requiring military and civilian first responders to perform their duties below ground in human-made tunnels, underground urban spaces, and natural cave networks.

Cooperative Vortex Robots for Aircraft Inspections

http://compinnova.eu/

Inom ramen för projektet CompInnova har forskargruppen i reglerteknik vid Luleå tekniska universitet fått en robot att klättra på ett flygplan i syfte att inspektera det.

Cooperative UAVs as a tool for Aerial Inspection of large scale Ageing Infrastructure

S. S. Mansouri, C. Kanellakis, E. Fresk, D. Kominiak and G. Nikolakopoulos, IROS 2018

Autonomous Aerial Inspection of Wind Turbines, Published at IROS 2018

Cooperative Coverage Path Planning for Visual Inspection

S. S. Mansouri, C. Kanellakis, E. Fresk, D. Kominiak and G. Nikolakopoulos, Control Engineering Practice, Elsevier, 2018.

Uploaded by Control Engineering Group at LTU on 2018-03-02.

Geeneralized Center of Gravity Compensation for Multirotors with Application to Aerial Manipulation

E. Fresk, D. Wuthier and G. Nikolakopoulos, "Generalized center of gravity compensation for multirotors with application to aerial manipulation", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vancouver, Canada, September 24-28, 2017.IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vancouver, Canada, September 24-28, 2017.

Generalized center of gravity compensation for multirotors with application to aerial manipulation

A Geometric Pulling Force Controller for Aerial Robotic Workers

[C127] D. Wuither, D. Kominiak, E. Fresk, and G. Nikolakopoulos, “A Geometric Pulling Force Controller for Aerial Robotic orkers”, in proceedings of the 20th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), Toulouse, France, 9-14, July, 2017.

An Aerial Robotic Worker (ARW) consists of a flying robot endowed with a manipulator arm, capable of stably interacting with its environment and therefore enabling virtually unbounded workspaces. In the present project, a task has been defined as applying a pulling force of given direction and norm over a handle.

DISIRE 2020 - Promotional Video

https://www.spire2030.eu/disire/

With the DISIRE project the properties of the raw materials or product flows will be fully integrated in a unique inline measuring system that will extend the level of knowledge and awareness of the internal dynamics of the undergoing processes taking place during transformation or integration of raw materials in the next levels of production.

Novel Compact Aerial Manipulator

[C116] D. Wuthier, D. Kominiak, C. Kanellakis, G. Andrikopoulos, M. Fumagalli, G. Schipper and G. Nikolakopoulos, “On the Design, Modeling and Control of a Novel Compact Aerial Manipulator”, accepted for publication in the 24th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, June 21-24, Athens, Greece, 2016.

In an experiment at LTU FROST Lab, the novel Compact AeRial MAnipulator (CARMA) is attached to the base of a multirotor performing predefined trajectories during flight. The platform is stable throughout the experiment.

Airplane Robotic Inspector

[C136] A. Brusell, G. Andrikopoulos and G. Nikolakopoulos, "Novel Considerations on the Negative Pressure Adhesion", 25th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, 3-6 July, 2017, Valletta, Malta.

Localization and 3D Reconstruction in Underground Mine Environment

[C111] C. Kanellakis and G. Nikolakopoulos, “Evaluation of Visual Localization Systems in Underground Mining”, accepted for publication in the 24th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, June 21-24, Athens, Greece, 2016.

This video demonstrates experiments for localization and mapping tasks in underground harsh mine environment, using visual sensors. The experiments were performed in a tunnel of a production area at the LKAB's iron ore mine in Kiruna, Sweden.

AEROWORKS 1st Integration Week Results

Results from 1st Integration Week of AEROWORKS that took place in ETH Zürich from 30th November until the 4th of December 2015.

Modified Potential Field based Path Planning and Sliding Mode Control Path Tracking Scheme

This video demonstrates a Modified Potential Field based Path Planning and Sliding Mode Control Path Tracking Scheme for an Articulated Vehicle.

Development of an Autonomous UGV - Initial trials

This video presents the LTU and the SSC demonstrator - autonomous unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) - developed as part of the R5COP project. http://www.r5-cop.eu/en/

Optimal DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A TILT RoTOR

Design and Development of a Robotic Dancer based on Pneumatic Muscle Actuators

Development of a Robotic Dancer via Pneumatic Muscle Actuators

Design and Development of a Sewer Inspection Robot

Design and Development of a sewer robotic arm for the inspection of deposits in sewer lines that endanger the health of the sewerage system. The highly hampered conditions for sampling operations have brought to light the need to have a controllable sampling system able to autonomously or semi-autonomously collect the different type of samples inside the pipelines.

George Nikolakopoulos

George Nikolakopoulos

Research Highlights

George Nikolakopoulos

The Prime Minister of Education visiting our Robotics and AI lab

The CoSTAR Team lead by NASA

We have wone the second stage of the SUB-T DARPA challenge with the CoSTAR Team lead by NASA

Field Experiments with Autonomous UAVs as part of the CoSTAR participation

CoSTAR Team finished 2nd in the world robotics competition at Sub-T

LTU/Robotics Participates in the Sub-T Challenge of DARPA

Cooperative Vortex Robots for Aircraft Inspections

Cooperative UAVs as a tool for Aerial Inspection of large scale Ageing Infrastructure

Cooperative Coverage Path Planning for Visual Inspection

Geeneralized Center of Gravity Compensation for Multirotors with Application to Aerial Manipulation

A Geometric Pulling Force Controller for Aerial Robotic Workers

DISIRE 2020 - Promotional Video

Novel Compact Aerial Manipulator

Airplane Robotic Inspector

Localization and 3D Reconstruction in Underground Mine Environment

AEROWORKS 1st Integration Week Results

Modified Potential Field based Path Planning and Sliding Mode Control Path Tracking Scheme

Development of an Autonomous UGV - Initial trials

Optimal DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A TILT RoTOR

Design and Development of a Robotic Dancer based on Pneumatic Muscle Actuators

Design and Development of a Sewer Inspection Robot