Researches in the field of swarm robotics would agree, building a swarm behavior that is usable in realistic field deployments is non-trivial. Here is our approach to maintaining connectivity that brings realistic field deployments a bit closer: youtu.be/HdueQhKV33I MIST Lab

tinyML reaches new heights with the Crazyflie nano drone AI-deck: bit.ly/2OQWGHp

How do you explore a 3D, GPS-denied environment while maintaining connectivity with an operator? With a relay chain! Latest work on IEEE RAS RA-L. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/1909.10496 Video: youtu.be/LN2hgX1K9BY Code: github.com/MISTLab/SwarmR… Polytechnique Mtl MIST Lab Vivek Shankar Varadharajan #Robotics

The A-TEC in competition is going very well for the team so far! Results on Friday! Credit especially to Yanjun Cao for his incredible work.

#SeasonsGreetings from MIST Lab - we say thank you to: everyone who stayed at home, everyone who worked in an essential position, our collaborators, partners, and sponsors. Polytechnique Mtl NSERC / CRSNG Canadian Space Agency Mitacs @CHspacecenter European Space Agency NASA JPL Basler AG #robotic #exploration

New MIST Lab paper accepted on the IEEE Internet of Things Initiative Journal! In this work Y. Cao, C. Chen and David St-Onge schedule ultra-wideband measurements for localization with 1000s of devices in highly-dynamic topologies. HW tested as usual! Paper: mistlab.ca/papers/UWBTDMA… Thread 👇 (1/5)

Today we had our first test day at the Canadian Space Agency ‘s Mars Yard in preparation for #IGLUNA2021. Here you see one of our rovers in the wild while it is autonomously navigating through obstacles on „#Mars“.

Meet our new team member Spot from Boston Dynamics - help us name the robot and feel free to drop your suggestions below! Thank you NSERC / CRSNG for supporting our research projects and allowing us to use state-of-the art hardware Polytechnique Mtl

I invite the attendees of DARS to attend the online Session 2A1D: DARS online 3 which I will be chairing. There are some interesting papers that will be presented . Darragh O'Neill @swarm2021

Very proud of our partnership with Boston Dynamics and NASA Ames. This video highlights the capabilities of our NeBula AI and Autonomy solution integrated with a multi-robot system, to autonomously explore, map, and find signs of life in Mars-analog caves youtu.be/qTW-dbZr4U8

A small group of #robots can guide thousands of simple particles (think nanomedicine!). The trick: the guide robots control the rules binding the particles together. Fantastic work by Vivek Shankar Varadharajan Sepand Dyanatkar Polytechnique Mtl Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2204.07195

Some truly remarkable images from Ingenuity, scouting the Entry-Descent and Landing hardware (parachute and back-shell) to inform future missions to Mars (i.e. Mars Sample Return). A clear reminder that we can't land on Mars with only a parachute! #MarsHelicopter

Congratulations to now Dr. Vivek Shankar Varadharajan for successfully defending his PhD thesis on hierarchical #robot #swarms MIST Lab Polytechnique Mtl ! Vivek's thesis had an incredible breadth and was a massive experimental undertaking. I'm proud of his achievements!

Come and see our spotlight on #multirobot risk-aware exploration algorithm DORA at #ICRA2022 in room 118C (Multi-Robot and Swarm Robotics II) and chat with us at the poster session! Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2109.14551

And for MIST Lab last presentation at #ICRA2022, we'll show our bouncy CogniFly by Ricardo de Azambuja et al. in Aerial Robotics V (in 112A, starting at 10:00). Come squeeze it at the poster session! Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2103.04423

Submitting to our Special Issue of Swarm Intelligence on Nano and Micro Swarm Robotics? Deadline is 31 Aug, but we'd love to hear about your intentions to submit as soon as possible. Just send me an email! Co-edited with Josh Bongard, Xiaoguang Dong & Metin Sitti springer.com/journal/11721/…

Engineers Georgia Tech have built #robots made of robots that are greater than the sum of their parts. On their own, "smarticles" can only flap their arms, but bundled together, they form a mobile supersmarticle that's driven by collective nudging. 📝: fcld.ly/5bxsdjp

And having a great 2nd day, kicked off my the amazing keynote talk by Giovanni Beltrame Giovanni Beltrame MIST Lab on heterogeneous #swarms and even a bonus human-robots #dancing demonstration 🤩 #ANTS2022 #SwarmRobotics

It feels very nice to see our work on hierarchical swarms at a keynote. Thank you Giovanni Beltrame for an excellent talk!

🚀 Excited to share that our team at #MISTLab and Polytechnique Mtl will be featured on CNN's Tech for Good! Our segment highlights our research on multi-robot autonomy for space exploration, where we showcased the autonomy modules of our heterogeneous robot swarm.