Revision as of 17:04, 31 January 2010

The launch event of the Centre for Automation and Robotics Research (CARR) will take place on 22nd January 2010. The launch will include demonstrations of the GUARDIANS- and VIEW-FINDER-project

New video demonstrating HornetsEye capabilities (available as 45.6 MByte H.264-video). More ...

MMVLWiki

The Mobile Machines and Vision Laboratory (MMVL) is a research group which is part of the Centre for Automation and Robotics Research (CARR) 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.

MMVL projects and free software

Past Projects		Present Projects		Free Software
MINIMAN	MiCRoN	GUARDIANS	VIEW-FINDER	Mimas
I-SWARM	Nanorobotics	REPLICATOR		HornetsEye

The MMVL has been working on a number of European and UK funded research projects, such as Miniman, Micron, I-SWARM, and Nanorobotics (also see past projects). Currently the MMVL is participating in GUARDIANS, VIEW-FINDER and REPLICATOR (also see present projects). It is active in the area of Medical Electronics Engineering Research and autonomous mobile robots. The MMVL is also actively involved in consultancy for industry.

MMVL activities

Medical Electronics Engineering Research	Robobuilder Programming
Robot Automation

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

View Finder project successful completion

22nd Jan 2010 The ViewFinder EU-FP6 project was successfully completed. The EU review panel congratulated the project partners for the integration efforts and the presented overall solution.

Robotic centre launch event

22nd January 2010: The Centre for Automation and Robotics Research (CARR) will be opened by Professor Noel Sharkey from Sheffield University. The launch will include demonstrations of the GUARDIANS- and VIEW-FINDER-project. Jacques Penders was interviewed on BBC radio (at 22m 07s of the 30 mins show).

RISE 2010 conference

20th-21th January 2010: The 2010 conference on Risky Intervention and Surveillance /Maintenance of the Environment (RISE) is taking place at Sheffield Hallam University (Owen 1028). More...

Rubyconf 2009 presentation video

20th January 2010: Confreaks made a video of the Rubyconf 2009 presentation about HornetsEye. The video is available for download now. More...

Robobuilder programming

4th October 2009: A new fun project is about writing a Ruby-extension to control a Robobuilder Huno. The aim is to prototype robotic applications involving machine vision. More...

HornetsEye-0.32 released

8th August 2009: A new version of the HornetsEye computer vision library was released. The core of the library was rewritten and it features a much more versatile type system, extended element selectors, array views, and tensor operations. Maps, warps, and masks now work on single elements as well as sub-arrays. A conversion to OpenCV::CvMat and back was implemented. Furthermore a GNUplot example was added. More...

Closed-loop control in a TEM

26th June 2009: A software demonstrating vision-based closed-loop control in a TEM was tested today. In the end we succeeded to demonstrate vision-based closed-loop control. More...

Telemanipulation proof-of-concept

30th April 2009: A prototype software for telemanipulation in a TEM was tested successfully. More...

New article in 'Security Europe'

3rd February 2009: Article on the Guardians and Viewfinder projects. More...

VISA rules changing in March 2009

4th February 2009: If your visa expires before 30 June 2009, you should read this information. In March 2009, the rules for student visa extensions are changing. More...

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: 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.

CARR founded

21st December 2009: CENRA acronym has been changed to CARR, i.e. Centre for Automation and Robotics Research after deliberation with other organisations within Yorkshire region. The formal opening of the centre has been announced for the 22 Jan 2010.

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.

Older News

Older news can be found in the news archive.

See Also

• Past Projects
• Present Projects

External Links

• Official MMVL homepage
• Materials and Engineering Research Institute
• Sheffield Hallam University, UK
• Autonomous guided vehicles
• Medical image processing