Ann Arbor, Michigan university lab led by Prof. Edwin Olson; originator of the AprilTag fiducial system and research in autonomous navigation and mapping.
The APRIL Robotics Laboratory is a research group in the Computer Science and Engineering department of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Its name stands for Autonomy, Perception, Robotics, Interfaces and Learning, and the lab is directed by Prof. Edwin Olson.
The lab is best known for AprilTag, a visual fiducial system that encodes 4 to 12 bits per tag so that a camera can detect markers at long range and compute their full 3D pose, used in robotics, augmented reality and camera calibration. The detector is written in C with no external dependencies, released under a BSD license, callable from Java through JNI, and supports multiple tag families generated from the lab's public apriltag-imgs and apriltag-generation repositories; the original method was published in 2011 and the AprilTag 2 detector in 2016. Other research includes multi-policy decision-making (MPDM) for autonomous navigation in dynamic environments, the AXLE trajectory smoother based on factor graphs, masked metric mapping, semantic mapping and localization, and multi-robot coordination. Applied projects include an autonomous landfill mapping system developed under the Cybersees program.
The lab publishes its papers, software and course material openly and occupies renovated space on the university's North Campus following the expansion of the Michigan Robotics program.
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2008
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