Overview
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The Mobile Autonomous Robotic Systems Lab (MARS Lab) at ShanghaiTech University is dedicated to research on intelligent and novel algorithms, software and also hardware for various robotic applications. It was found in August 2014 by Prof. Sören Schwertfeger of the School of Information Science and Technology of ShanghaiTech University. The lab is dedicated to excellence in research and teaching in robotics and is part of the STAR Center. Additionally Prof. Schwertfeger and the MARS Lab are part of the Shanghai Institute of Fog Computing Technology (SHIFT). If you are interested in joining or visiting the lab, please refer to the respective advertisement on the openings page.
The lab, student and professor offices are all located in the STAR Center. Please find the directions on how to reach the STAR Center here.
News
MARS New Years Party
On January 2nd 2020 the MARS Lab held its New Years Party 2020 with hotpot and Werewolf games.
Best Paper Finalist at IEEE ROBIO 2019
The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO) was held in Dali, Yunnan, China, from Dec 6 to 8, 2019. The conference, which will be held in Florence, Italy next year, accepted 403 papers from 739 paper submissions for oral presentations. The ShanghaiTech Automation and Robotics Center (STAR Center) groups of Prof. Sören Schwertfeger and Prof. Andre Rosendo submitted and got accepted 5 papers to ROBIO 2019.
The paper with the title “Furniture Free Mapping using 3D Lidars” by master student Zhenpeng He, PhD student Jiawei Hou and Sören Schwertfeger was awarded as a Best Paper Finalist for ROBIO 2019. In that paper a Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) method is described that can automatically segment 3D Laser Scans into walls, furniture, doors (open and closed!) and ground and ceiling to create furniture free 2D and 3D maps. The paper was presented by the master student Zhenpeng He. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.00663
PhD Student Jiawei Hou presents paper at ICAR 2019
The MARS Lab PhD Student Jiawei Hou presented our paper "Area Graph: Generation of Topological Maps using the Voronoi Diagram" at the 9th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Students present at IROS 2019 in Macao
Two MARS Lab students presented papers at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems conference (IROS) 2019 in Macao.
Haofei Kuang presented the paper: Kuang, H., Q. Xu, X. Long, and S. Schwertfeger, "Pose Estimation for Omni-directional Cameras using Sinusoid Fitting", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS): IEEE Press, 2019. arXiv
Qingwen Xu presented paper: Chavez, A. Gomez, Q. Xu, C. Atanas Mueller, S. Schwertfeger, and A. Birk, "Adaptive Navigation Scheme for Optimal Deep-Sea Localization Using Multimodal Perception Cues", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS): IEEE Press, 2019. arXiv
MARS Lab prominently featured in TV documentary
CGTN (China Global Television Network) aired a documentary about "China's AI Revolution", prominently featuring Prof. Schwertfeger, the MARS Lab and ShanghaiTech University. You can see the full video online: https://america.cgtn.com/2019/10/18/big-story-chinas-ai-revolution (MARS Lab coverage starts at 41:30).
Master Student Yijun Yuan in Germany for 3 month
The MARS Lab master student Yijun Yuan went to Würzburg, Germany, for a three month research visit at the University of Würzburg with Prof. Andreas Nüchter. He wil be working on topics of 3D Mapping and SLAM there. The visit is funded by DAAD, the german academic exchange service.
Würzburg Castle
PhD Student Qingwen Xu presents paper at IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Taipei, Taiwan
The MARS Lab PhD Student Qingwen Xu presented our paper at the 26th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing in Taipei. The paper title was was "Improved Fourier Mellin Invariant for Robust Rotation Estimation with Omni-cameras".
Xiaoling Long and Prof. Schwertfeger present papers at SSRR 2019 in Würzburg, Germany
Xiaoling Long and Prof. Schwertfeger presented two papers at the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR) in Würzburg, Germany. The conference was held between September 2 and 4 2019.
Impression of Würzburg.
Call for Papers: Robotics Perception in Adversarial Environments
*** FRONTIERS IN ROBOTICS AND AI - ROBOT AND MACHINE VISION ***
*** SPECIAL ISSUE (RESEARCH TOPIC): ROBOTICS PERCEPTION IN ADVERSARIAL ENVIRONMENTS ***
Website: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/11177/robotics-perception-in-adversarial-environments
IMPORTANT DATES
- January 31st, 2020: Manuscript Submission
- Review and publishing (if accepted) of the manuscripts will be on a rolling-basis.
Two students present at RCAR 2019 in Irkutsk, Russia
The students Yijun Yuan and Chen Hongyu each presented a paper at the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics (RCAR) in Irkutsk, Russia. The conference was held between August 6 and 11 2019.
MARS Lab at RoboCup 2019 Sydney, Australia
The MARS Lab participated in the RoboCup Rescue Worldchampionships 2019 in Sydney, Australia. This is the first time we participated in the international competition. Our approach to the rescue robotics problem is to develop a quite small robot for narrow spaces. Six graduate students participated in Sydney between July 2nd and 8th, 2019.
Graduation Ceremony 2019
At the ceremony at ShanghaiTech today we celebrated the graduation the bachelor and the master students!
From left to right: Bachelor: Bai Song, Ruijian Li, Xiting Zhao, Jiadi Cui (Bachelor with Prof. Laurent Kneip, future graduate student in the MARS Lab),
Shan Zeyong (Master), Prof. Sören Schwertfeger, Bachelor: Jianxiong Cai, Rong Yuyang (worked in MARS Lab, Bachelor with Prof. Liangfeng Zhang)
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Third Annual MARS Party
To celebrate the graduation of our five bachelor students and for Shan graduating with a master the students organized a party! We rented a house, cooked and ate together and played many games (pool, PlayStation, KTV, Werewolf) - till 4 am. We had also invited the alumni of the MARS group.
Undergraduates win first prize in Challenge Cup Shanghai
Undergraduate student team from MARS Lab won one first prize in “Challenge Cup” National Undergraduate Curricular Academic Science and Technology Works (Shanghai division) and they will participant the national competition on behalf of Shanghai later this year. The members include Zehao Zhao, Xiting Zhao, Yiming Yin, Zhihao Zhang, Zhijie Yang and Hankai Liu and they are supervised by Prof. Sören Schwertfeger. Their topic is about SLAM rescue robots suitable for all terrain. The robot is designed to collect data in post-disaster environments inappropriate for rescue crews either automaticly or by remote control. Motion detection, thermal imaging and carbon dioxide sensors are also attached to it to get more information. The idea of this project is comes from their Robocup Rescue Robot participation, which is also supervised by Prof. Schwertfeger. The Shanghaitech Student Innovation Center also gives a lot of support on this project.
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