Vislab

Institutional information: http://vislab.isr.ist.utl.pt

Our YouTube channel, containing nice videos and demonstrations: http://www.youtube.com/user/VislabLisboa

Our internal video page on this wiki: VisLab Videos

Research Topics

• Machine Learning
• Computer Vision

Projects

Current projects

• First-MM - Flexible Skill Acquisition and Intuitive Robot Tasking for Mobile Manipulation (EC FP7, Feb. 2010 - ?)
  • http://www.first-mm.eu/
• HANDLE - Developmental Pathway Towards Autonomy and Dexterity in Robot In-Hand Manipulation (EC FP7, Feb. 2009 - Feb. 2013)
  • http://www.handle-project.eu
  • This project aims at providing advanced perception and control capabilities to the Shadow Robot hand, one of the most advanced robotic hands in mechanical terms. We follow some paradigms of human learning to make the system able to grasp and manipulate objects of different characteristics: learning by imitation and by self-exploration. Different object characteristics and usages (object affordances) determine the way the hand will perform the grasping and manipulation actions.
• RoboSoM - A Robotic Sense of Movement (EC FP7, Dec. 2009 - Dec. 2012)
  • http://www.robosom.eu/
  • This project aims at advancing the state-of-the-art in motion perception and control in a humanoid robot. The fundamental principles to explore are rooted on theories of human perception: Expected Perception (EP) and the Vestibular Unified Reference Frame.

Past projects

• RobotCub - Robotic Open-Architecture Technology for Cognition, Understanding and Behaviour (EC FP6, Sept. 2004 - Jan. 2010)
  • http://www.robotcub.org
• URUS - Ubiquitous Networking Robotics in Urban Settings (EC FP6, Dec. 2006 - Nov. 2009)
  • http://urus.upc.es
• CAVIAR - Context-Aware Vision Using Image-Based Active Recognition (EC FP6, 2002 - 2005)
• MIRROR - Mirror Neurons for Recognition (EC FP5, 2001 - 2004)

People

Permanent staff

• José Santos-Victor
• Alexandre Bernardino
• João Paulo Costeira
• João Sentieiro
• José Gaspar

Researchers

• Luis Montesano
• Manuel Lopes
• Plinio Moreno
• Ricardo Ferreira
• Rubén Martínez-Cantín

PhD students

• Bruno Damas
• Dario Figueira
• Giovanni Saponaro
• Jonas Hörnstein
• Jonas Ruesch
• Matteo Taiana
• Nuno Moutinho
• Ravin DeSouza (IST-EPFL)
• Sébastien Gay (IST-EPFL)
• Urbain Prieur (IST-UPMC)

Master's students

• Ashish Jain
• Duarte Aragão
• João Pimentel
• Lester García
• Martim Brandão
• Tayebeh Razmi

Other staff

• Ana Santos (administrative)
• Ricardo Nunes (engineering)

Past members, visitors and miscellaneous

• Anastácia Rodrigues (administrative)
• António Bastos
• Carlo Favali, visiting PhD student, University of Genoa
• Carlos Carreira, University of Valencia, Spain
• César Silva, Ph.D. (2001)
• Claudia Deccó, visiting PhD student, University of São Paulo, Brazil
• Cláudia Soares
• Diego Ortin Trasobares, visiting PhD student, University of Zaragoza, Spain
• Etienne Grossmann
• Eval Bacca Cortes, visiting MSc student, University of Cali, Colombia
• Freek Stulp, visiting researcher, University of Groningen, The Netherlands and University of Edinburgh, UK
• Giampiero Salvi, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
• Gianluca De Leo, University of Genoa, Italy
• Javier Minguez, visiting PhD student, University of Zaragoza, Spain
• João Maciel, Ph.D. (2002)
• José Eduardo Vianna, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil
• Lenildo Silva, visiting PhD student, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Luís Jordão
• Luís Vargas
• Marco Zucchelli, visiting PhD student, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
• Maria Nazarycheva
• Matteo Perrone, University of Genoa, Italy
• Miguel Praça
• Niall Winters, visiting PhD student, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
• Nuno Gracias
• Raquel Vassallo, visiting PhD student, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil
• Ricardo Beira
• Ricardo Oliveira
• Roberto Iannello, University of Genoa, Italy
• Roger Castro Freitas, visiting PhD student, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil
• Sandra Nope Rodríguez
• Sjoerd van der Zwaan, M.Sc. (2001)
• Vicente Javier Traver
• Verica Krunić
• Vítor Costa, M.Sc. (1999)

Robots

• Baltazar
• Chico (iCubLisboa01)
• Chica
• Vizzy

Other resources

Cortex cluster

For information on the setup of the cluster, see: Cortex, in particular 'Global Libraries and Repositories' there.

Demos

• Binocular Head
• Imitation
• Surveillance

Network

IP address list

name	IP address
pc104	10.10.1.50
icubsrv	10.10.1.51
chico2	10.10.1.52
cortex1	10.10.1.1
cortex2	10.10.1.2
cortex3	10.10.1.3
cortex4	10.10.1.4
cortex5	10.10.1.5

SVN repository

You can find the VisLab SVN repository at:

 svn://svn.isr.ist.utl.pt/vislab

Tutorials

• 3D ball tracker

Useful links

• Checklist for new VisLab members
• YARP for iCub: RobotCub coding basics
• iCub Joints: http://eris.liralab.it/wiki/ICub_joints
• iKinArmCtrl: http://eris.liralab.it/iCub/dox/html/group__iKinArmCtrl.html

VisLab category

The page Category:Vislab (linked below) lists all pages related to VisLab.