Robots

A large part of our research is done in the domain of robotics. For this we have several robots available. This includes 3 e-puck robots and 4 Webots licenses. The e-puck robots are extended with a long-range distance turret which was designed in our lab during a student project.

In our group we also have a dog robot available which was originally designed during a hardware project. More information about this robot can be found on the hardware project page.

Many other robots were bought, build or modified for use in student hardware and software projects including a seg-way robot, a helicopter and a robot car.

Finally a collection of robots was build, mainly by Francis wyffels and Michiel D'Haene, using lego and the Dwengo microcontroller platform for educational purposes. This includes 6 autonomous robot cars, some demos for the WELEK robot competitions, a robot illustrating the concept of morphological computation and a crawling robot which learns moving forward by itself using reinforcement learning (Q-learning) of which you also can see a movie.

If you want more information about these robots of how to build them, just send an e-mail to Francis wyffels.