Two papers accepted

Two papers accepted to present in December 2013 and January 2013.
- Hung will present the paper "Accelerating Multi-Target Tracking by a Swarm of Mobile Robots with Network Preservation" at the 5th International Conference on Soft-Computing and Pattern Recognition, Hanoi, Vietnam, December 2013.
- Trung will present the paper "A Kangaroo-inspired Robotic System: A System of Systems to Assist FireFighters" at the 19th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, Beppu, Japan, January 2014.

UBD Convocation Exhibition - A live show for the Crown Prince

The MoreLab had an excellent opportunity to participate in the UBD Convocation Festival from 31. August to 12. September. We were selected to present our recent research project about Kangaroo-Inspired Robotic System for Emergency Responses, which works as the first responders to assist the fire-fighters to explore and search for victims in damaged and fired buildings.

In the opening ceremony, we got the great honour to give live-demonstration of the robotic system to the Crown Prince (Pro-Chancellor of UBD), Minister of Education, the VC, the DVCs and many delegates. We also received a lot attentions from the journalists and visitors during this day.

To achieve this show-case, all lab members had to work very hard for 10 days in the lab and in the field (the new library). Thank you all for your efforts. We are truly "the more than one" lab!

On this occasion, we would like to give special thanks to our friends and colleagues including the UBD Convocation Festival organizers and the Estate officers who assisted us during our show-case preparation. Without your contribution, we would not make it!

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Our research featured by Boneo Bulletin

Our research works were featured by the Boneo Bulletin.

You can read the online version: 

http://borneobulletin.brunei-online.com.bn/index.php/2013/08/21/award-winning-ubd-scientist-students-to-develop-robotic-technology/

New member

Welcome a new PhD student, Md. Iqbal from Pakistan.

Iqbal will work on a project "A Decentralized Control of Robot Formation and Transformation".  

If you wish to join our lab (either PhD or Master by research) with the full-scholarship provided by the university, please read the studentship carefully. 

New lab space -> new toys, new games

We have upgraded our lab by re-arranging the space, adding new toys, and creating new games!

The new robot platform being modified for human safety in human-robot cooperation project. Are you curious with our modified platform?

Before modification

After modification

Our "new toys" and corners of the lab

New Year - New Members

Happy New Year!
Two new PhD students joining the lab since January 2013.

Tung Le is working on PhD thesis project of "Inter-communication and Routing of Reconfigurable Robots".

Tung Truong is carrying out a PhD thesis project of "Human Safety in Human-Robot Cooperation".

The Best Video Award at URAI 2012

Excellent news!

Our work on"A Bio-inspired Hierarchical Mobile Sensor Network for Fast Deployment and Displacement in Human Impassible Environments" has been awarded the Best Video Award at the IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence, Deajeon, Korea, 26-29 November, 2012.

Robot Convoy

We have done a fun work with robot convoy, both in simulation and real robots.

Kangaroo Robot on Robocluser.dk and TechMedia.dk

In Danish, click on here
In English, click on here

Our lab was also featured on Techmedia.dk.

A swarm of Kangaroo Robots for Emergency Responses

A swarm of mobile robots can be applied in many applications including exploration and mapping, surveillance and reconnaissance, patrol and monitoring, victim identification in hazardous environments. More advantageous than a single robot, a robot swarm should be sent into human impassible areas for cooperative exploration and data gathering. Such emergency response services require a strategy allowing fast deployment and exploration of mobile robots.
This work presents a strategic method and technological solution to emergency response services by inspiration from the Kangaroo family. We describe a semi-autonomous system consisting of a Kangaroo “mother” robot carrying a number of “child” robots sitting on her “pouch”. Depending on situation, the mother allows the children to jump out exploration, data gathering, or call them back for data collection and displacement