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MMVLWiki
The Mobile Machines and Vision Laboratory (MMVL) is a research group which is part of the Centre for Robotics and Automation (CENRA) at the Materials and Engineering Research Institute (MERI).
The expertise within the MMVL group includes Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Embedded Systems Engineering, Electronic Design, Interaction design, Mathematical Modelling, Robotics and Swarm Robotics.
The main theme of our research is on the connection of artificial perception and physical action. Perception requires extensive processing and interpreting of data generated by sensors. We employ a wide range of sensors and sensing techniques including various types of cameras (Normal light, IR, Thermal), Laser and Ultrasound devices and also chemical sensors produced in-house. Actions are typically performed by robots and multi robot systems, ranging from medium sized mobile robots to mini, micro and also nano robots. The robots and sensors are to be applied in ordinary environments and human machine interactions play an important role.
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 MINIMAN |
 MiCRoN |
 Nanorobotics |
 GUARDIANS |
 Mimas
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 I-SWARM |
 VIEW-FINDER |
 REPLICATOR |
 HornetsEye
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The MMVL has been working on a number of European and UK funded research projects, such as Miniman, Micron and I-SWARM (also see past projects). Currently the MMVL is participating in Nanorobotics, GUARDIANS, VIEW-FINDER and REPLICATOR (also see present projects). It is active in the area of medical image processing and autonomous mobile robots. The MMVL is also actively involved in consultancy for industry.
 Medical Image Processing |
 Autonomous Mobile Robots
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 Micromanipulators |
 Robot Automation
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If you are interested in a project with the MMVL or if you would like to have our consultancy, please contact us.
If you need assistance, please visit the help section.
http://vision.eng.shu.ac.uk/mmvlwiki/ is the short URL for this web page.
News
QtRuby4-Windows-Installer for Qt-4.3.4 released
28th January 2008: A new version of the Qt4-QtRuby installer for Microsoft Windows was released. More...
AVA 2008 meeting in Bristol
19th December 2008: The new libjit-based implementation of HornetsEye is being presented at the AVA 2008 meeting in Bristol. More...
DAAD/ARC visit
3rd December 2008: Christian Dahmen and Tim Wortmann from the AMIR institute of Oldenburg University visited us in context of a ARC/DAAD-funded cooperation.
CENRA founded
17th November 2008: Jacques Penders was appointed as the head of the newly founded Centre for Robotics and Automation (CENRA).
Update: The Microsystems & Machine Vision Laboratory was renamed to Mobile Machines and Vision Laboratory.
Image processing using libjit
11th November 2008: HornetsEye now makes use of libjit for just-in-time compilation of image processsing operations. More...
HornetsEye repository on Launchpad
22nd October 2008: The Bazaar-repository of HornetsEye now can be accessed at Launchpad.net. This significantly reduces the barrier to participation. More...
Article about the GUARDIANS project in Professional Engineering
3rd September 2008: Scanned article about the GUARDIANS robots in Professional Engineering - 03/09/08, Vol 21, Number 15, p.35.
IEEE Advances in Cybernetic Systems 2008
9th-10th September 2008: This year's CIS is taking place at Middlesex University in London. Several current and former members of the MMVL are participating.
Presentation at OSCON2008
23rd July 2008: The Ruby-extension HornetsEye is being presented at the OSCON 2008 conference. Here you can download the presentation slides (10 MByte PDF). More...
Presentation at ICIA2008
22nd June 2008: The Ruby-extension HornetsEye was presented at the ICIA 2008 conference. The Lucas-Kanade tracker was used to demonstrate the current capabilities of the vision library. You can download the publication about a machine vision extension for the Ruby programming language (also see foils (2.1 MByte PDF)). More...
Interactive Presentation Software
12th June 2008: An interactive presentation software was developed to demonstrate the capabilities of the new release of the HornetsEye system. More...
Older News
Older news can be found in the news archive.
See Also
- Past Projects
- Present Projects
- Check out our current temperature record ;)
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