June 13th - June 17nd, 2022
Iran Masoumeh Mansouri (https://iranmansoori.github.io), an assistant professor at the University of Birmingham, visited our lab. We discussed possible cooperation related to routing problems in dynamic environments.
April 25th - May 2nd, 2022
Our student team led by David Zahrádka qualified for the final round at F1Tenth virtual GrandPrix. They placed at 6th place in the qualification (from 43 teams).
April 8th, 2022
José Manuel Veiga Ribeiro Cascalho, Computer Science Professor at the University of the Azores, Portugal visited our lab and discussed avenues of opportunities for future cooperation of IMR and the Group of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence he leads.
October 2nd, 2021
The 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2021 OnLine) held in Prague, Czech Republic, Sept 27-Oct 1, 2021 and co-organized by us is over. We were excited to host this flagship robotics conference in the country that introduced the word "robot" to the world exactly 100 years ago! %
April 7th, 2021
Head of the laboratory, Libor Přeučil presents the current progress in robotics and its applications in the broadcast Roadshow: Robotizace a robotické aplikace (czech language)
March 1st - August 6th, 2021
Louis Bernier from Sigma, Clermont-Ferrand, France starts his research stay at IMR.
November 6 th, 2020
A new member of the laboratory arrived - TiaGo++
June 30 th, 2020
Our paper Accurate and Robust Teach and Repeat Navigation by Visual Place Recognition: A CNN Approach has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2020)
March 3 rd, 2020
Our paper Visual Place Recognition by Spatial Matching of High-level CNN Features has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems.
January 30 th, 2020
Interview with Libor Přeučil in the Boardroom about the award for bringing the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) to Prague in 2021.
January 22 nd, 2020
Our paper Highly Robust Visual Place Recognition Through Spatial Matching of CNN Features has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020)
September 4th-6th, 2019
July 23 th, 2019
Mr. Ryosei Tanaka, State Minister from the Cabinet Office of Japanese Government, and Mr. Kaoru Shimazaki, Japanese Ambassador to the Czech Republic, visited our laboratory.
July 10th, 2019
Our paper Spatio-Semantic ConvNet-Based Visual Place Recognition has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2019)
May 28 th, 2019
Topics for these were introduced. See presentation.
May 14 th, 2019
Libor Preucil and Miroslav Kulich presented our laboratory at the Czech-Luxembourgish Robotics Day.
April 10 th, 2019
Mr. Bernhard Maier, CEO of Škoda Auto visited our laboratory. We have shown him running projects solved in cooperation with or for the Škoda Auto.
April 8 th, 2019
HE Daniel Meron, Ambassador of Israel in Czech Republic visited our laboratory.
March 25 th, 2019
Prof. Simon Godsill, head of Information Engineering Division in Cambridge, visited our laboratory.
September 11th, 2018
Colleges from SCCH visited our laboratory.
April 24th , 2018
Dr. Patrick Pérez, Scientific Director of valeo.ai, a Valeo AI research lab focused on self-driving cars, visited our laboratory.
January 25th - 26th, 2018
The fourth general assembly of SafeLog project is hosted at CVUT CIIRC.
January 19th, 2017
Prof. Ruzena Bajczy shortly visits our laboratory just few days before she was honored by doctorate honoris causa at CVUT.
November 7th, 2017
Nobel Prize winner prof. Stefan W. Hell shortly visits our laboratory.
October 25th, 2017
Martin Ford, the author of the well-known book Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future , shortly visited our laboratory.
October 10th , 2017
Marco Dorigo gives an interesting talk about Swarm Robotics Research at the IRIDIA AI lab at 14:00 in room A102 of CVUT CIIRC building.
October 5th - 6th , 2017
We host the RoboCom++ plenary meeting.
September 21th , 2017
The SafeLog project gets the excellent progress mark at first progress-review meeting in Luxembourg.
August 21th , 2017
Japan’s Minister of Economy, Technology and Industry, Mr. Hiroshige Seko visited our laboratory.
June 7th 2017
Libor Preucil gives a talk at conference Průmysl 4.0.
May 22th, 2017
First periodic meeting of the kassandra project.
May 16th , 2017
Visit of Sultan Qaboos University delegation led by Her Majesty Dr. Monou al Said, and the executive rector Professor Ali al Bemani.
January 24th - 25th, 2017
General assembly of SafeLog project at Zagreb.
January 17th, 2017
Kick-off meeting of the kassandra project.
October 19th - 21th, 2016
IMR group exhibit on the Future Forces international exhibition & conference.
October 19th, 2016
Dr. Robert Finkelstein visits us and gives a lecture Autonomous Robots: The Next Big Thing That Will Change The World
October 9th, 2016
We succeeded with destination proposal for IROS2021. So see you all in Prague in five years.
September 26th, 2016
We welcome Giorgos Kondylakis from Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece as an intern.
September 19th, 2016
We welcome Ceylan Karakuş from Sakarya University, Turkey as an intern.
Semptember 13th, 2016
Libor Preucil presents work of our group for ABB s.r.o.
August 12th, 2016
Our proposal for Kassandra - multi-camera vehicles' undercarriage security scanner jointly prepared with VOP cz was selected for funding by Ministry of the Interior of Czech Republic.
August 10th, 2016
Dr. Nazmul Siddique from University of Ulster visits our laboratory and we have a fruitful discussion about future cooperation.
April 6th, 2016
Libor Přeučil gives a speech at the panel disscussion Linking STEM Education to Entrepreneurship - Recent Examples from the Czech Republic organized by The American Center of the U.S. Embassy in Prague.
April 5th - April 6th, 2016
We are taking part on the LEA-DER an international exhibition and conference aimed at special security equipment.
March 29th, 2016
We welcome Jérémy Taquet from Sigma, Clermont-Ferrand, France as intern for his Masters' thesis.
March 21th - March 23th, 2016
We are taking part on the European Robotic Forum.
March 10th - October 31th, 2016
Matteo Dorotino from Politecnico di Torino starts his research stay at IMR.
March 2nd ', 2016
The Czech newspaper Hospodářské Noviny reports about our group, CIIRC and CAK project. (only in czech).
February 1st - 4th, 2016
Kick-off meeting of SafeLog project within H2020 EU program holds in Karlsruhe.
January 19th, 2016
Annual meeting of CAFR holds in Prague.
December 16th-20th, 2015
Short stay of researches from Technische Universität Berlin withing a joint Czech-German project "Highly flexible manipulation system for varying industrial environments".
December 7th-12th, 2015
Gaël Ecorchard visits Technische Universität Berlin withing a joint Czech-German project "Highly flexible manipulation system for varying industrial environments".
November 24th-29th, 2015
Short stay of researches from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology withing a joint Czech-German project "Multi-robot systems in Complex Environments".
October 19th - 23th, 2015
Short stay of Nguyen The Duy from Technische Universität Berlin withing a joint Czech-German project "Highly flexible manipulation system for varying industrial environments".
September 15th - 30th, 2015
Short research stay of Pablo de Cristoforis from Computer Department at the University of Buenos Aires within a joint Czech-Argentinean project "Multi-robot autonomous systems".
September 20th-25th, 2015
Short stay of researches from Technische Universität Berlin withing a joint Czech-German project "Highly flexible manipulation system for varying industrial environments".
September 15th, 2015
Prof. Kazuya Yoshida, director of the Center of Robotics for Extreme and Uncertain Environments at Tohoku University in Japan visits our laboratory and give a talk "Robotics and Space Technology at Tohoku University".
June 1st- August 28th, 2015
Study stay of Mathieu Viry in our laboratory.
June 2th-30th, 2015
Short stay of Juan Jose Miranda Bront, researcher from Computer Department at the University of Buenos Aires within a joint Czech-Argentinean project "Multi-robot autonomous systems"
May 19th -21th, 2015
IMR group presents on the International Defence and Security Technologies Fair in Brno.
May 1st, 2015
IMR group becomes a part of Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics, Czech Technical University in Prague. We moved to new internet as well as physical address.
November 27th - December 14th, 2014
Mirek Kulich and Martin Saska visited the Research Centre in Informatics for Engineering at the National Technological University in Córdoba and Computer Department at the University of Buenos Aires within a joint Czech-Argentinean project "Multi-robot autonomous systems".
November 22th-28th, 2014
Short stay of researchers from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology within a joint Czech-German project "Multi-robot systems in complex environments".
November 24th-28th, 2014'
Short stay of researches from Technische Universität Berlin withing a joint Czech-German project "Highly flexible manipulation system for varying industrial environments".
October 15th - 17th, 2014
IMR group will exhibit on the Future Forces NATO exhibition & conference.
June 2nd - 5th, 2014
3 presentations of IMR members will be given at ICRA 2014.
May 12th, 2014
IMR seminar - Tomas Baca - Control of multi-MAV swarms, 11:00, E132.
May 5th-6th, 2014
Presentation of IMR group at MESAS'14 organized by the NATO Modelling and Simulation Centre of Excellence. 4 presentations and a live demo.
April 2nd, 2014
IMR paper Coordination and navigation of heterogeneous MAV-UGV formations localized by a hawk-eye like approach under a model predictive control scheme accepted for publication in International Journal of Robotics Research; IF:2.863; Ranking:1/21 in Robotics.
February 19th, 2014
Best paper award of ICUAS 2013 for IMR paper was announced at conference website.
September 25th - 27th, 2013
Final review meeting of European projects Symbrion/Replicator was held in Stuttgart.
August 1st, 2013
The Center for Advanced Field Robotics (CAFR) is established. The IMR group is one of the founding members.
June 18th-21st, 2013
Presentation of IMR group at CL13 Industry Days within NATO exercises in Lest, Slovakia.
June 3rd-14th, 2013
Stay of IMR researchers at University of Pennsylvania within project COLOS (joint research with Prof. Kumar's group).
May 14th, 13:15 - 14:15, 2013
Open Doors Day in our group for bachelor and undergraduate students. Room KN:E-301. If you are interested in the mobile robotics and related areas, you are welcome to visit us. We introduce currently solved tasks and related topics we offer for your theses and projects.
May 13th, 12:45 - 13:45, 2013
Open Doors Day in our group for bachelor and undergraduate students. Room KN:E-112. If you are interested in the mobile robotics and related areas, you are welcome to visit us. We introduce currently solved tasks and related topics we offer for your theses and projects.
October 22nd 10:30 - 12:00, 2012
Lecture Haptic Rendered Practice Carillon given by Prof. Fazel Naghdy from University of Wollongong, Australia. The lecture takes place in the room KN:G-205.
October 19th, 2012
'Robotic club' meeting in Liberec. Presentation about motion planning will be given by Petr Vanek.
October 18-19th, 2012
Symbrion/Replicator General Assembly meeting. The meeting takes place in the room KN:E-301.
October 5th 9:30 - 11:00, 2012
Lecture Robotics and Remote Handling Technology in the Indian nuclear fuel given by prof. K.V.Kasiviswanathan from Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, INDI