The mobile robotics and shape recognition group is an informal grouping of people and projects at the centre.
For real information, links, movies, student info etc, see the following link. Mobile robotics projects, and projects on sensing or vision, especially with a mobile robotics slant can be found via the page: "http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~dudek/mobile.html"
Students affiliated with the lab are planning to enter the 1997 AAAI Mobile Robotics Competition in the "find life on Mars" event.
Some of the problems we are interested in include the following. How can a moving observer such as a robot recognize where it is? How can it build but a virtual reality model of its world for use by a human operator (this is important for tasks such as remote inspection)? How can a robot learn efficiently about where it is? How can a group of robots collaborate efficiently? How can computer vision be used by a mobiel robot to build a map of its environment?