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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.
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 MINIMAN |
 MiCRoN |
 VIEW-FINDER |
 REPLICATOR
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 I-SWARM |
 Nanorobotics |
 GUARDIANS |
 DHRS CIM
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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.
 HornetsEye (Ruby) |
 Mimas (C++)
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 Medical Image Processing |
 Robot Automation
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If you are a student interested in doing a project, please check out our project suggestions. Of course we are also open to new ideas.
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
Thesis on 3-D surface reconstruction
7th Apr 2010 Kim Chuan has published his PhD thesis on Development of 3-D Surface Data Acquisition System Using Non-Calibrated Laser Alignment Techniques. More...
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. 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...
Older News
Older news can be found in the news archive.
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