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Research

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.

Future projects

[Translate to English:] bonaventure

Automated detection of salmon using drones and underwater cameras

[Translate to English:] drone

GNSS-denied navigation for aerial robots

[Translate to English:] mrs

Active mapping for heterogeneous multi-robot systems

[Translate to English:] rov

Infrastructure inspection with autonomous underwater robots

[Translate to English:] plantes

Mapping plants in Canadian lakes using autonomous aquatic robots

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

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

rrt-rope

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

Open Source