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Estimation, Search, and Planning (ESP) Research Group

Welcome

Welcome to the Estimation, Search, and Planning (ESP) research group, a member of the Ingenuity Labs Research Institute and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) in Smith Engineering at Queen's University. We motivate a knowledge-based approach to robotics research by taking on challenging, real-world problems. We do this to test our solutions and force us to understand the fundamental challenges of next-generation robots.

Please have a look around our website to find out more about who we are and what we do, including our publicly available code and datasets. You may also be interested in our YouTube, X (Twitter), and GitHub accounts.

Recent News

  1. Osprey: Autonomous Aerial Surveying

    Rowan has developed an autonomous aerial surveying platform, Osprey, in collaboration with ESP and the Dynamic Robot Systems (DRS) group at ORI. Osprey can perform multimission autonomous surveys of completely unknown 3D structures and is a great example of the research done in both ESP and DRS. You can watch a video of it in action on YouTube and read the paper submitted to Field Robotics on arXiv. This work was in collaboration with Nived Chebrolu, Yifu (Ethan) Tao, and Maurice Fallon.

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    Watch the video on YouTube.