Lab Facilities

A fully equipped indoor arena designed for autonomous robot navigation, multi-agent coordination, and human-robot interaction experiments. Features configurable obstacle courses and real-time overhead tracking.

Open-air facility for testing terrain-adaptive robots, aerial vehicles, and long-range autonomous systems under real environmental conditions. Includes GPS reference stations.

Rugged unmanned ground vehicle for outdoor autonomy research. Equipped with a 360° LiDAR, stereo camera, and onboard NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin for edge inference.

ROS2-native differential drive robots ideal for SLAM, path planning, and swarm robotics experiments. Pre-loaded with Nav2 stack and custom perception pipelines.

In-house developed 15-agent swarm testbed for decentralized coordination, emergent behavior, and bio-inspired algorithms. Each unit under 200g with IR communication.

Professional-grade quadrotor with centimeter-level positioning accuracy. Used for aerial mapping, infrastructure inspection, and UAV-UGV collaborative experiments.

Lightweight agile platforms built on Betaflight firmware with onboard compute for vision-based autonomy and indoor swarm flight. Fully customizable hardware stack.

High-precision collaborative arms for manipulation research, assembly automation, and human-robot collaboration experiments. Integrated force-torque sensing.

State-of-the-art optical motion capture system covering the full arena. Provides ground-truth 6-DOF pose at 240 Hz, essential for algorithm benchmarking.

High-density point cloud sensors for 3D mapping, object detection, and SLAM research. Paired with calibrated camera rigs for sensor fusion studies.

Compact depth cameras used across mobile and manipulation platforms. Ideal for close-range 3D reconstruction, object pose estimation, and dense SLAM.

High-performance GPU cluster dedicated to deep learning training, reinforcement learning simulation, and large-scale data processing for robotics research.

Distributed edge inference nodes mounted on mobile platforms and fixed locations across the lab. Enables real-time perception pipelines without cloud dependency.

Photron FASTCAM high-speed cameras for analyzing fast robot dynamics, impact events, and contact mechanics at millisecond resolution.

GPU-accelerated simulation environment for training and testing autonomous systems with sim-to-real transfer. Full ROS2 bridge, physics engine, and synthetic data generation.

Dedicated RF environment with software-defined radios, 5G NR testbed, and LoRa mesh infrastructure. Enables research in robot communication protocols and networked autonomy.

Experimental workbench for soft robotics, compliant mechanisms, and bio-inspired locomotion research. Equipped with material testing rigs and 3D printing facilities.

Dedicated space for studying human-robot collaboration, trust, and ergonomics. Features biometric sensors, eye-tracking, EEG headsets, and configurable social robot setups.

Full academic license suite covering Robotics System Toolbox, ROS Toolbox, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, and Optimization toolboxes for rapid prototyping.