Mobile Robotics

The research activities of the mobile robotics group are aimed to endow mobile robots and ubiquitous computing devices the necessary skills to aid humans in everyday life activities. The group performs fundamental and applied research on perception, learning and actuation of mobile robots with contributions to multisensor fusion, on-line learning, object/person tracking, recognition, situation awareness, localization, map building, navigation, path planning, autonomous exploration, and social robotics. The group differentiates from other international groups on its niche of application: robotics in urban pedestrian areas, with a high level of human-robot interaction. The group has sustained participation in national and EU projects and maintains the following research facilities: the Barcelona Robot Lab, and the Mobile Robotics Lab.