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.

Aerial Robotics

We are working on open hardware and algorithms for safe aerial logistics, ground-air interaction, multi-UAV situational awareness, and UAV tracking and remote identification.

Distributed Systems

Our research activities lie within the areas of DLTs and ROS 2 integration, and on designing intelligent systems in the edge-cloud continuum, hardware acceleration and computation offloading.

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

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.

2021 - 2025

2021 - 2023

RoboMesh

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

AutoSOS

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

2020 - 2022

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