Space and Information Technology Automation and Robotics
The Robotics and Automation laboratory, led by Professor Thomas Bräunl, has designed and built over 100 robots over the last two decades. They have built mobile robots from a small scale to full size cars and buses, and robots that drive, walk, sail, dive or fly.
Robot communication and control is a central topic of their work. They have designed and built web-based and app-based remote robot command and control systems, and combine the latest sensor technology in Lidars, cameras, IMUs and (when possible) RTK-enhanced GNSS.
They employ deep-learning AI technologies for end-to-end learning for autonomous driving and detection tasks. They aim to establish a command and control centre as well as a planetary rover testing ground similar to the ‘Martian field’ at NASA/JPL, Pasadena.
