Intelligent Systems Group

Our mission in the Robotics Group is to study and develop methods, theories, sensors and platforms for creating mobile robots that are adaptive and capable of performing purposeful tasks in cooperation with humans.

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REDI - Remote Distributed Intelligence: Distributed intelligence is concerned with the design of a multi-agent system that achieves a global objective while the system itself is composed of agents which are inherently distributed in space, time, or functionality. For example, a team of robots performing a concerted mission describes a distributed intelligent system. The application possibilities of multi-agent systems are appealing as concerted missions can be performed without often complex, non-robust, non-scalable, and time-consuming centralized control. Rather, by utilizing a fault tolerant multi-agent distributed intelligent system in which the global behavior of the system emerges from local interactions of agents with their environment and with each other, it would be possible to achieve a global objective reliably without centralized coordination.
THE MINIROBOT - A miniature mobile robot for multi robot research: The purpose of this project is to develop a novel modular miniature mobile robot for multi robot research with the aim of providing a low-cost and low-power miniature robot with capabilities typically found only in large size robots. The Minirobot is the primary robot platfrom of our research.
SENMP - A Stochastic Evolutionary Neuron Migration Process: By employing a spatial encoding scheme with lateral interaction of neurons for artificial neural networks, which represent candidate solutions within a neural network ensemble, neurons of the ensemble form problem-specific spatial patterns with the desired dynamics as they migrate under the selective pressure. The approach is applied to gain new insights into development, adaptation and plasticity in neural networks and to evolve purposeful behaviors for mobile robots. In addition, the approach is used to study the relationship of spatial patterns, composed of interacting entities, and their dynamics.
ROSEMAN - Robots Serving Humans: The purpose of this project is to develop components for intelligent mobile robots capable of operating in an dynamic environment together with humans. Such a robot would have many applications for example in health care, public buildings, and homes. The focus of the project is in control systems and robot senses, especially in color vision. The initial research hypothesis is that the control system is based on deliberative planning and behaviour synthesis.
CRS - A Color Range Scanner: In mobile robotics, the ability to acquire three dimensional information from an environment and to have color information about surrounding objects makes the robot vision system more suitable for complex tasks, such as environment modeling and object recognition. The CRS was designed to acquire both range and color of the object points, and to create a color 3-D image from the measured object.

PUBLICATIONS (2005-)

Vallius T & Röning J (2006) A Telepresence Robot System Realized by Embedded Object Concept, Proc. Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXIV: Algorithms, techniques, and Active Vision, Oct 3 - 4, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. [pdf]
Vallius T & Röning J (2006) ATOMI II - Framework for Easy Building of Object-oriented Embedded Systems, Proc. 9th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design: Architectures, Methods and Tools, Aug 30 - Sep 1, Dubrovnik, Croatia, p. 464-472. [pdf]
Kemppainen A, Haverinen J & Röning J (2006) An Infrared Location System for Relative Pose Estimation of Robots, Proc. 16-th CISM-IFToMM Syposium of Robot Design, Dynamics, and Control (ROMANSY 2006), Jun 20 - 24, Warsaw, Poland, p. 379-386 [pdf]
Tikanmäki A, Haverinen J, Kemppainen A & Röning J (2006) Remote-operated Robot Swarm for Measuring an Environment, Proc. ICMA 2006 - International Conference on Machine Automation, Jun 7-8, Seinäjoki, Finland. [pdf]
Haverinen J (2005), Performance Evaluation and Analysis of SENMP in Robotics Experiments, Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'05), August 2 - 6,Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, p. 2575-2580. [pdf]
Tikanmäki A, Suutala J & Röning J (2005) Instrumentation and Software Architecture for a Smart Room, Proc. Smart Systems 2005, May 3-4, Seinäjoki, Finland. [pdf]
Haverinen J, Parpala M & Röning J (2005), A Miniature Mobile Robot With a Color Stereo Camera System for Swarm Robotics Research, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2005), Apr 18-22, Barcelona, Spain, p. 2494-2497. [pdf]

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