Welcome to ROMI Lab

          Industrial robots have revolutionized industry during the last couple of decades. The world of robotics has now moved on to developing mobile robots with navigational intelligence and scene interpretation ability so that they can interact with their environment and efficiently execute a task. Therefore the robotics today is a combination of navigational intelligence (that includes localization, mapping, SLAM, path planning etc) and computer vision based scene interpretation. These research areas continue to attract researchers and there are many challenges to be solved before we can see a truly autonomous mobile agent capable to navigating on its own interacting with its environment.

Robotics and Machine Intelligence (ROMI) lab, being part of the department of electrical engineering at SEECS, is mainly interested in developing intelligent systems for robots. We work in the areas of robot localization, mapping, SLAM and path planning. These capabilities lie at the heart of any system that claims to be truly autonomous. We are currently working in all these areas with a funded project to develop efficient SLAM algorithms for indoor and outdoor mobile robots. With the need to develop intelligent robots, scene understanding has become essential skill for robots and with that computer vision and machine learning are now part of almost any robotic system that interacts with environment.

We are also interested in these areas and are actively pursuing computer vision and machine learning techniques that can be used in robotics. Current areas of work include human pose estimation for robotic application, SLAM with vision sensors in dark/low lightening conditions, reinforcement learning in robotics, and developing transferable skills for robotics.