Sub-divisions (Labs)
The ORI is divided into five groups, each with a different specialisation. # Mobile Robotics Group (MRG): navigation systems, autonomous vehicles. This group is headed by Paul Newman (engineer), Paul Newman, who is also the founder of Oxbotica. # Applied AI Lab (A2I): artificial intelligence and machine learning. # Dynamic Robot Systems Group (DRS): control, robot motion planning, motion planning, robotic mapping, mapping, and robot navigation, navigation for dynamically moving robots. # Goal-Oriented Long-Lived Systems (GOALS): long-term autonomy and planning for robots operating for long periods of time in uncertain dynamic environments. # Estimation, Search & Planning Group (ESP): algorithm design for estimation, search and path planning of mobile robots. # Soft Robotics Lab: explores how compliance in the robot body can be exploited for dealing with task and environment uncertainty and for interacting with humans.Activities
Among the ORI's projects are various autonomous vehicles as a part of the Mobile Robotics Group's Robotcar project. There have been various iterations of the hardware and software used in these experiments. The first vehicle used as a research platform by the Mobile Robotics Group was a Bowler Wildcat provided by BAE Systems in 2011. Since then, various Land Rovers as well as other models (such as the Nissan Leaf) have been used as subsequent generations of research platforms.References