Search And Rescue Robot 

Hyper-redundant snake-robot that uses state-of-the-art reinforcement learning algorithms to maneuver in complex environments such as collapsed buildings and coal mines to identify human survivors. Can be used for espionage. These robots should be preferred because they can move in very narrow places, on different terrains on the ground and in the water where the wheeled and legged robots fail. Our goal is to make this robot close to a natural snake as much as possible to exploit its flexible movements. Our long-term goal is to turn our snake robot project from a prototype into an actual machine that can be deployed in earthquake-affected places and save lives by bringing state-of-the-art rescue equipment for disaster relief teams in Pakistan.

Social Mobile Autonomous Robot – SMART 

Social robots can interact with humans to provide information and guidance. They have multiple applications including being stationed at Airports, Universities, and public gatherings, we are focusing on its food serving application. Future versions will include local language understanding. The goal of SMART is to overcome human-robot social barriers. Towards this end, we are in the process of developing a second robotic prototype that bears a personality, and which can behave according to social conventions. The idea is that communication and interaction with robots should be easy and enjoyable. The robot will be able to navigate autonomously in our labs, by knowing its exact location. The robot will be like a customizable chatbot from which people can ask their concerned queries and the robot would be able to answer every general query using Artificial intelligence.

We work on

Following are some of the ongoing projects of the Lab

Industrial Manipulator

Vision based Pick and Drop operation End-Effector. Can be altered to use in welding and milling, etc.

Campus Bus

Fully Autonomous driving with vision-based obstacle avoidance. Can be deployed in unknown environments

Whegged Robot

Can be used in Mining exploration, space missions, military operations. It is stable on rough terrain as well.

Mechanical Ventilator

For the COVID-19 response; In times of emergency when existing facilities are not enough to fulfil the needs of rapidly detoriating situation.

Image Stabilization 

A platform to improve the visual output of the video-feed from any Camera (smartphone, robots, etc.)to provide better features.

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Equipment

NVIDIA DGX Server

 

Ultimaker S3

 

Motion Capture System

 

TurtleBot3 Burger

 

TurtleBot3 Waffle Pi

 

SnapMaker 2.0