L-CAS is hiring: We are seeking to recruit two Postdoctoral Fellows and one PhD student in the context of a European collaborative project, involving six academic institutes and two industrial partners across four European countries. The project aims to enable robots to achieve robust and intelligent behaviour in human environments through adaptation to, and the exploitation of, long-term experience.
Join the L-CAS team!
RoboJam, or simply two days of robot programming, took place in the computing labs in the last weekend of October, 2012! The event, organised by our student Peter Anderson and Computing Society, was targeted at students with little or no programming knowledge and its aim was to improve student engagement in computing subjects. The final event was preceded by several weeks of preparations as a part of the LCND funded project.
Overall, RoboJam was a success; the participants enjoyed themselves and now feel more confident with regards to programming. Some of the highlights from these two days were reported by the local media.
Videos and more technical stuff can be found in the following pages.
Our students Mike, Jonathan, and Pete have successfully accomplished their summer project (read their progress blog), ending with a very successful final demonstration. First, our “Poomba” robot (the Raspberry Pi Roomba) set out to autonomously explore the environment…
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… and then we used the acquired data to map it (using ROS gmapping).
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So, we have a proper mobile robot setup with a iRobot Create (Roomba), ROS setup, the Raspberry Pi as controller, a wireless network, and a host PC (running all the computation-heavy stuff like the mapping), all ready to go for future projects.
Thanks to Mike, Jonathan, and Pete for their engagement and the fantastic work they have delivered.
We are hiring: A new lectureship at the Lincoln School of Computer Science has been advertised recently. Particular early career researchers are encouraged to apply for this and we particularly welcome applicants in the area of robotics and autonomous systems!
we are slowly progressing towards a more complete and more up to date website. Bear with us, but have a look at http://robots.lincoln.ac.uk for now to get the full picture.