Team Projects
As part of our teaching effort we maintain many interesting projects on which students can do research and develop their practical skills.
D-FaLL
The Distributed Flying and Localization Laboratory (D-FaLL) creates a space where students can learn, experiment, and develop new ideas on the topics of Flying Machines and their Localization. The projects pursued by the student-teams always maintain a focus on how to handle the challenges of a distributed architecture when there are many agents simultaneously flying and localizing. More (project page)
RoboCup football
The RoboCup promotes research in cooperative multi-robot and multi-agent systems through the game of soccer. University teams from all around the globe compete in various leagues and the Standard Platform League has been using Aldebaran Robotics since 2008. The team Z-Knipser is a collaboration between the Computer Vision Group and the Automatic Control Lab. Bachelor and master students are working on projects in perception and behavior programming that is train the NAO to perceive his environment and act on it. More (project page)
Autonomous sailing
The Automatic Control Laboratory is developing a fully-autonomous model sail boat. This is a multi-disciplinary project that includes challenging tasks in the fields hardware and software integration, system identification, and advanced control design. The goal is the construction of a testbed for novel control algorithms and the participation in international robotic-sailing competitions. More
Autonomous RC car racing
The ORCA (Optimal RC Racing) Project developed (and improves) a test bed consisting of a race track, a infrared camera based tracking system and modified 1:43 dnano RC cars, in order to study control algorithms allowing high-speed, real-time control. On the test bed different fast MPC algorithms are implemented, allowing the cars to online plan their trajectory only based on the track layout and avoid other cars. To allow competitive racing between automatically controlled cars, game theoretical methods are used to derive new control strategies, suited for competitive racing. More
Autonomous solar electric vehicle
The solar powered vehicle project has as its aim the realization and the investigation of a reduced scale autonomously-driving solar electrical vehicle. It covers different engineering disciplines including automatic control, power electronics, electric drives, mechatronics and telecommunication. The project provides an attractive platform that allows graduate students acquire knowledge in the fields of automatic control and power electronics, and provides a research platform to investigate, implement and validate advanced concepts related to autonomous electric vehicles. More