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Research

Sherbrooke Autonomous Field Robotics Lab

The SAFiR Lab is an advanced robotics research group that develops innovative strategies in perception, mapping, planning, decision-making and control to improve the autonomy of aerial, terrestrial and aquatic robots in real and complex environments.

Our mission is to enable the widespread use of intelligent robots to serve society, by enabling them to better understand their environment and react optimally to a variety of situations.

Our research covers several key areas:

  • Inspection and Maintenance: Improving the sustainability of critical infrastructures through monitoring missions on power lines, dams and aeronautical structures.
  • Safety and Surveillance: Contributing to search and rescue missions, driver assistance, space exploration, and monitoring of events such as forest fires, floods and avalanches.
  • Conservation: Ensuring the preservation of ecosystems by monitoring endangered and invasive species, as well as mapping forests, seabeds and glaciers.

Ongoing Projects

[Translate to English:] forillon

Image recognition for the inventory of endangered plants using UAVs

[Translate to English:] maverick

Off-road autonomous driving and advanced driver-assistance systems

[Translate to English:] rov

Infrastructure inspection, underwater navigation and autonomous marine systems

Completed Research Projects

[Translate to English:] arena

ARENA: Adaptive Risk-aware and Energy-efficient NAvigation for Multi-Objective 3D Infrastructure Inspection with a UAV

[Translate to English:] topo

Topological Mapping for Traversability-aware Long-range Navigation in Off-road Terrain

[Translate to English:] aqua

Active Sampling, Modeling and Estimation in Aquatic Environments

[Translate to English:] moar

MOAR Planner: Multi-Objective and Adaptive Risk-Aware Path Planning for Infrastructure Inspection with a UAV

[Translate to English:] tape

TAPE: Tether-Aware Path Planning for Autonomous Exploration of Unknown 3D Cavities using a Tangle-compatible Tethered Aerial Robot

[Translate to English:] rrt-rope

RRT-Rope: A deterministic shortening approach for fast near-optimal path planning in large-scale uncluttered 3D environments