Computer Vision and Autonomous Systems
Who we are
We, the Computer Vision and Autonomous Systems (CVAS) group, are from the School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow. We have a background in robotics, computer vision and artificial intelligence. Our passion and drive is to develop algorithms that allow robots to perceive, understand and interact with the world that surrounds them.
The challenges
The challenges we focus on are:
- enabling a robot to see and feel what is around it using its senses such as vision, touch and hearing, and
- enabling a robot to position its body, arms and “gripper” to grasp, and use objects in the world.
We are currently investigating how to use advanced artificial intelligence to allow robots to learn to recognise objects and understand situations. With these senses, robots are being programmed to learn to control their actions, to respond to events and also to work out how to carry out tasks without having every step programmed in advance. Right now, we have made good progress in robot perception; however, a lot of work remains to be done to enable robots to perceive the world as well as humans!
What we do
We like to work on real-life challenges to further our understanding in robotics. We work with dual-arm robots, and we are devising ways to equip them with the capabilities they need to allow them to do useful work. What we think is so exciting about this research is how much it could help people and industry in real-world applications. For example, we aim to build robots that can assist in manufacturing processes, be put to use in space exploration, or explore and work in remote or dangerous places. Right now, we are teaching a robot to grasp any object as well as a person can — this sounds easy, but it is not for a machine! The CVAS group is hands-on, multi-disciplinary and our key research topics are:
- Robotics and AI in Advanced Manufacturing
- Visual processing architectures based on models of human and animal vision
- Reinforcement learning for robotic manipulation
- Self-awareness in robotics — flexible manufacturing
Feel free to contact us!
- Dr Gerardo Aragon-Camarasa:https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/staff/gerardoaragoncamarasa/, https://twitter.com/ger_ac83
- Dr J. Paul Siebert: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/staff/paulsiebert/
