About Us
The Intelligent and Mobile Robotics Group (IMR) has a history of more than 25 years conducting both basic and applied cutting-edge research that concentrates on the design and development of intelligent mobile robots and self-guided vehicles. Our main goals are to create highly robust cognitive control systems for this kind of robots and to bring novel ideas into particular solutions. Central tasks in the lab involve sensing of the environment and processing and understanding of the acquired sensor data. This in turn leads towards automated world model building and/or updating as well as the creation and storage of large maps. The learned models of the world are then used for planning of robot activities and for self-navigation in real environments (both indoor and outdoor).
Success Stories
We won 2nd place in the 2024 euRobotics Technology Transfer Award with our project RUR - Research and development of a robotic system for automated masonry from clay blocks together with project's partners KM Robotics and Wienerberger.
Our team – David Woller (PhD student led by Miroslav Kulich) and Jakub Rada (bachelor student) successfully participated at the ROADEF Challenge 2020 optimization competition . After winning the semifinal phase in the Junior category, the team ranked 2nd in the final phase in the category and 8th in the overall ranking (among 74 international teams). [more info]
We (D. Woller, V. Kozák, V. Vávra, and M. Kulich) won the Competition on Electric Vehicle Routing Problem, organized within the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2020 decisively with an adaptation of the Variable Neighborhood Search metaheuristic.
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Events & News
15:00 May 22th, 2025
Come to visit our laboratory!. We will present research topics and student projects as well as live demos.
March 14th, 2025
Karel Košnar gives talk in the Frekvence 1 radio show "Konečně pátek". (in czech) link
March 3rd, 2025
A new intern Karl Alexis from France joins our lab. His internship is planned for 3 months.
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