Welcome!
Welcome to the website of the Robotics and Perception Group (RPG) led by Prof. Davide Scaramuzza. The RPG was funded in early 2012 and is part of the Artificial Intelligence Lab of the University of Zurich.
Our mission is to develop autonomous machines that can navigate all by themselves using only onboard sensors, and mainly cameras, without relying on external reference systems, such as GPS or motion capture systems. Our interest encompasses borh ground and micro flying robots, as well as multi-robot heterogeneous systems consisting of the combination of these two. We don't want our machines to be passive, but active, in that they should react to and navigate within the environment so as to gain the best knowledg out of it.
News
May 4, 2013
Join RPG at ICRA'13
RPG will give two talks at ICRA'13: one by Christian Forster (ThDInt.14) and one by Davide Scaramuzza (link)
April 29, 2013
A Documentary about RPG in the Swiss TV
A documentary by the Swiss TV about our autonomus helicopters for search and rescue(link to original article)
April 1, 2013
New PhD student
Welcome to Flavio Fontana, our new PhD student in the group.
March 31, 2013
RPG featured in the IEEE Spectrum News and Gizmodo
Our Easter video featuring a ground and an aerial robot got featured in IEEE Spectrum News and Gizmodo, the famous technology review webblogs. Read the articles: IEEE Spectrum and Gizmodo.
February 28, 2013
RPG featured in the Weltwoche magazine
Weltwoche, a Swiss weekly magazine, talks about drones in the daily life. Read the article: "Der Spion von deinem Fenster" (German only).
December 1, 2012
Three new visiting PhD Students
Welcome to Chiara Troiani from INRIA, Volker Grabe from Max Planck Institute, and Damiano Verda from University of Genoa, who will join us for six months.
December 1, 2012
Two new PhD Students
Welcome to Matthias Fässler and Elias Müggler, our new PhD students in the group.
December 19, 2012
Student Projects Available for Spring 2013
UZH and ETH Students are welcome to apply for a project at our lab. — More information
November 1, 2013
Four new members
Welcome to Dr. Matia Pizzoli and Dr. Andras Majdik, our two new postdocs, and to Yanhua Jiang, our new visiting PhD student for one year.
September 16, 2013
New visiting postdoc
Welcome to Dr. Andrea Censi, our new visiting postdoc for three months.
September 1, 2012
Davide Scaramuzza at TEDxZurich
Prof. Davide Scaramuzza has been invited to give a talk at TEDxZurich on October 25, 2012.
July 7, 2012
RSS Workshop
Join the talk about Christian Forster's work on Collaborative Visual SLAM with Multiple MAVs at the RSS workshop on integration of perception with control and navigation for resource-limited, highly dynamic, autonomous systems.
May 17, 2012
Davide Scaramuzza wins European Young Researcher Award 2012
Congratulations! Download the press release.
May 1, 2012
New PhD Student
Welcome to Christian Forster, our new PhD student in the group.
April 23, 2012
sFly on IEEE News
The European project sFly, coordinated by Davide Scaramuzza, gets a log of media attention and gets featured on IEEE News. Read it here.
Video Highlights
April 29, 2013
A documentary by the Swiss TV about our autonomus helicopters for search and rescue(link to original article)
March 31, 2013
Happy Easter from RPG! Read also article in IEEE Spectrum and Gizmodo..
October 25, 2012
Autonomous Vision-Controlled Micro Flying Robots: Davide Scaramuzza at TEDxZurich.
September 28, 2012
Collaborative Monocular SLAM with Multiple Micro Aerial Vehicles. Paper submitted to ICRA 2013.
May 2, 2012
sFly project final video submission to IROS 2012.