Projects at the Robotics department

The listing below contains information about some of the current and earlier projects at the robotics department. Information about the different robots can be found on the robots page, and some other illustriative photos and plots might be found on the images page.

The most recent projects in each category are listed first. We intend to add information about the projects soon.

Mobile Robots

• An autonomous mobile plastering robot.
• Navigation and mapping of indoor environments using a scanning range measuring laser and the Hough transform.
• Navigation using a scanning range measuring laser and the Hough transform. Including navigation through doorways and along corridors with centimeter precision.
• Student projects using the Luleå Turbo Turtle (LTT) during the period 1986-93.
• Laser navigation using angles to identical beacons. Resulted in the market leading navigation system Lazerway now marketed by NDC.

Teleoperation

• Teleoperating a semiautonomous mobile robot.
• Safety aspects on teleoperated robots.
• Controlling a SCARA robot arm over the internet. The robot arm sends still photos, range camera range profiles and position updates to the operator who specifies the desired target position. The robot can autonomously grip an object indicated by the operator.

Teleinstructions

• Laserpointers for teleinstruction.

Range Cameras

• Calibrating the mechanical parameters of an range camera using relative motion.
• Modelling surface properties for range camera measurments.

Other projects

• A fast light weight SCARA robot.