University of Michigan, Mobile Robotics Lab
Ann Arbor, Michigan university lab founded 2006 by Prof. Ryan Eustice; studies SLAM and perception for underwater, ground and automotive robots.
The Perceptual Robotics Laboratory (PeRL) is a research group in the University of Michigan's engineering school in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Founded in 2006 and directed by Prof. Ryan Eustice, the lab studies autonomous navigation and mapping for mobile robots operating in previously unmapped environments, with an emphasis on computer vision as the primary perceptual sensor.
Core work covers simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), visual and lidar perception, and probabilistic estimation. Projects include automated hull inspection, in which an autonomous underwater vehicle surveys US Navy ship hulls, a mapping project on the wreck of RMS Titanic, and work with the Iver2 AUV. On land the lab fielded Team IVS in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, runs the Next Generation Vehicle project with Ford Fusion test vehicles, and tests at the university's Mcity automated-driving facility. PeRL also released the NCLT dataset, a 15-month collection of co-registered 3D lidar and omnidirectional camera data gathered on the university campus for long-term mapping research.
The lab's site lists Prof. Eustice as on leave serving as Senior Vice President of Automated Driving at Toyota Research Institute, and notes a 100,000 square foot, 54 million dollar robotics building approved for the North Campus.
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