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The
NEW laboratory websiteite can be found at http://robots.technion.ac.ilThe Robot Motion Laboratory at the faculty of Mechanical Engineering has been recently established by Dr. Elon Rimon, for research in cutting – edge technology of robotics.
The two main multi – year research programs at the laboratory are:
Autonomous Sensor – Based Robot Navigation.
Basic Problem:
Given a goal configuration for the robot, find a path which takes it to the goal while avoiding collision with obstacles.The traditional algorithms assume perfect knowledge on the environment and require extremely heavy computation. We seek to develop navigation algorithms which incorporate on - line sensor data into the planing.
Recent Publications:
Quasi – Static Robot Locomotion.
Basic Problem:
A multi - limbed autonomous robot has to "walk" towards a goal configuration while avoiding collision with obstacles. But the robot must step only through stable postures during the motion.We seek to develop a 4 - limbed spider - robot prototype. The experiments with the prototype will include locomotion in a two - dimensional tunnel, and walking in a two - dimensional gravitational field.
Recent Publications:
There is currently a
group of four students who perform their Master's and Ph.D. level research in these research programs.Spider robot simulations