Reconfigurable Ultra-Autonomous Novel Robots (RUNNER)

Project Overview

Runner provides a framework of highly efficient and detailed visual perception for autonomous robots, incorporating stereoscopic video sensors. It explores techniques for gathering high resolution 3D data of known terrain and real-time 3D computation of unknown terrains. 

Runner utilizes high end reconfigurable devices offering high performance and power efficient 3D sensing/matching. It includes the design and implementation of innovative cue extraction modules supporting very high data rates, of real-time reconfigurable object sensing mechanisms, design and implementation of a novel navigation scheme, and a sophisticated 3D reconstruction system implemented in a customised FPGA platform.

Partners Involved

• Algosystems S.A. (Greece)
• Aldebaran Robotics (France)
• Ingenieria de Sistemas Intensivos en Software, S.L(Spain)
• SignalGeneriX (Cyprus)
• University of Cyprus (Cyprus)
• Technical University of Crete (Greece)
• Mälardalen University (Sweden)
• Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain)

  For more information you can visit the project’s dedicated website: http://www.ece.ucy.ac.cy/labs/easoc/Research/RUNNER/home.html

This project is co-funded by EUREKA and European Union under the programme Eurostars.