Kanaloa

The RIP Lab’s Unmanned X Systems (UXS) research group, or Team Kanaloa, aims to advance Unmanned Systems technologies including aerial, surface, and underwater platforms for practical applications.

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The RIP Lab’s Unmanned X Systems (UXS) research group, or Team Kanaloa, aims to advance Unmanned Systems technologies including aerial, surface, and underwater platforms for practical applications.  The need for robust software and hardware robot platform(s), often equipped with expensive sensors and instrumentation, creates a high barrier of entry to the field of robotics and unmanned systems.  Our research interests are in the areas of sensor fusion-based localization, vision-based scanning and 3D scene reconstruction, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), obstacle avoidance, manipulation, swarm robotics, and autonomous multi-objective decision-making algorithms.

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