TIERS

Pushing the Frontiers of Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Research Topics

Multi-Robot Systems

Our main interests are in the areas of decentralized control, collaborative and heterogeneous multi-robot systems, and blockchain for distributed robotic systems.

Autonomous Robots

Our research focuses in localization and mapping in dense urban environments, mapping of unstructured environments, computational offloading, and hardware accelerators for ROS.

Edge Computing

From the definition of novel edge computing architectures to the deployment of artificial intelligence at the edge, our research focus is on embedded and distributed intelligence.

Academia-Industry Collaboration

Featured Projects

RAICAM

RAICAM, a EU-funded MSCA Doctoral Training Network, aims to train a cohort of 10 PhD students to work on the next generation of mobile robots for inspection and maintenance of industrial facilities.

2023 - 2026

2022 - 2024

AeroPolis

Sustainable and autonomous carbon-neutral aerial ecosystems and energy solutions for future metropolises

WildNav

GNSS-Free Localization and Navigation Strategies for Long-Term Autonomy of Drones in the Wild

2022 - 2023

2021 - 2024

R³Swarms

Robust, Resilient and Reconfigurable Swarms of Heterogeneous Aerial Robots with UWB-based collaborative localization, DLTs and a multi-tier cloud-fog-edge autonomy stack.

RoboMesh

Beyond 5G Mesh Networks with built-in Distributed Ledger Technology for Collaborative Insdustrial Multi-Robot Systems

2021 - 2023

2020 - 2022

AutoSOS

Autonomous Multi-UAV System Supporting Maritime Search and Rescue. Development of fog/edge computing technology to enable enhanced AI- powered situational awareness.

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