PeRL STUDIES AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION & MAPPING FOR MOBILE ROBOTS IN A PRIORI UNKNOWN ENVIRONMENTS.

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Automated Hull Inspection

PeRL is working on a ship hull analysis project with the goal of automating ship hull inspection for the US Navy using an AUV.

Automated Hull Inspection

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RMS Titanic Redux

Ongoing research towards the SLAM problem (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) has helped to map the wreck of the RMS Titanic.

New Slam Findings

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Welcome to PeRL

The Perceptual Robotics Laboratory (PeRL) at the University of Michigan studies problems related to autonomous navigation and mapping for mobile robots in a priori unknown environments with a directed focus on computer vision techniques for perceptual sensing. More...

What's New

On Leave Prof. Eustice is presently on a hybrid leave from U-M as Senior Vice President of Automated Driving at the Toyota Research Institute (TRI). He is not taking on any new students during this time while at TRI.

NCLT Vision and Lidar Dataset PeRL released a new long-term SLAM dataset with co-registered 3D-lidar and omnidirectional camera imagery collected over a period of 15 months. More....

Robotics Building The Regents approved a new $54 million, three-story, 100,000 square foot robotics research facility on North Campus in Ann Arbor. It's a great time to be a roboticist at UM!

Photo Gallery

Here are some pictures from current projects and past research expeditions!

Ford 1st automaker to test fully automated in Mcity. Learn more about our Work.

Ford 1st automaker to test fully automated in Mcity. Learn more about our Work.

Map building and localization for the NGV project. Learn more about our Work.

Map building and localization for the NGV project. Learn more about our Work.

Point cloud of the Big House collected by NGV test vehicle. Learn more about our Work.

Ford Fusion test vehicles for the NGV project Learn more about our Work.

Ford Fusion test vehicle for the NGV project Learn more about our Work.

Co-registered 3D Lidar and omnidirectional camera imagery for HD mapping. Learn more about our Work.

Team IVS's entry in the 2007 DARPA Urban Grand Challenge... Learn more about our Work.

Getting ready to deploy the HAUV for hull inspection during AUVfest'08. Learn more about our Work.

Screenshot of the real-time SLAM hull inspection visualization software. Learn more about our Work.

Launching AUVs under the Arctic ice during the AGAVE Engineering Cruise. Learn more about our Work.

PeRL's Iver2 AUV, NOAA Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Learn more about our Work.

Sidescan sonar of a new wreck discovered in NOAA TBNMS with PeRL's AUVs. Learn more about our Work.

PeRL's Iver2 AUV, UofM Biological Station. Learn more about our Work.