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.
Read more on our project page.
RMS Titanic Redux
Ongoing research towards the SLAM problem (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) has helped to map the wreck of the RMS Titanic.
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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!
