About
Events and Activities
Highlights
Collaborations
Publications
Our Team
Goals and Objectives
About
Robotics is generating significant interest among the leading Entrepreneurs and Governments. Across the globe, companies are constantly innovating and patenting designs to create the world's first fully autonomous machine with capabilities that will forever transform the way we do business and how we manufacture goods. It is therefore essential that the UAE, the most technologically forward country in the Middle East & North Africa region, uses the opportunities that advancements in robotics can present, to remain competitive and a front runner. Analysts predict that the early adoption of robotics technology in the UAE would significantly increase the GDP of the country and create a more knowledge-based economy thus propelling UAE as the premier destination for leading companies worldwide.
The vision for Autonomous Robotics and Active Vision (ARAV) Research Group is therefore that of empowering the society, and the basis of this empowerment is the research and development of next generation active vision algorithms coupled with realistic bio-mimetic kinematics paradigms and articulated physics-based mechanics for the implementation and integration of autonomous robots for the purpose of interacting naturally with people and with each other by adapting their behavior to the requirements of the task they are given within the dynamic environment they are situated in.
Events and Activities
- Innovation Toolbox: Interactive group activity
- The Exhibition of Robotic Applications in the Industry (KU-IEEE RAS Joint Event)
- A scientific workshop on robotics for professional programming and artificial
- Meeting with Prof. Grigory Kabatyansky from Skoltech, Moscow
Highlights
The Autonomous Robotics and Active Vision Research Group is committed to being a leading research group at the University of Sharjah. This group pioneers innovative knowledge and highly sophisticated technological solutions to achieve the aspiration of society by involving students and scientists in the research and development of next-generation active vision algorithms coupled with realistic bio-mimetic kinematics paradigms and articulated physics-based mechanics for the implementation and integration of autonomous robots. The purpose is to interact robots naturally with people and with each other by adapting their behavior to the requirements of the task they are given within the dynamic environment they are situated in.
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Participation in Events:
- The exhibition of robotic applications in the industry (Khalifa University) - IEEE RAS Joint event
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A scientific workshop on Robotics for students.
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Participation in Competitions:
Our research group actively participated in Robotics competitions.
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Facilities and Equipment:
- Robotis OP2 Robot
- Quanser MICO 4DOF arm Robot
- 7 DOF GAMMA 1500
- NAO Robot
- Pioneer P3-DX
- Quanser Rotary flexible joint
- Kinect V2
- Quanser QBot 2
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Collaborations
Our research group and the American University of Ras Al Khaimah - AURAK collaborate to develop and implement various control techniques for the Q-drone in university laboratories. We aim to enhance drone capabilities through innovative control mechanisms, testing them with advanced equipment.
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Our research group is collaborating with the Bio-robotics lab at the University of Wisconsin. Currently, one of our research group members is in close contact with the lab members working on a project that includes the control of rehabilitation robotics using advanced techniques such as intelligent control and reinforcement learning.
Our research group has a continuous collaboration with ÉTS Montréal. Two of our research group members are pursuing their Ph.D. studies at ÉTS Montréal: Eng. Saif Sinan is working on Nonlinear Control, Collaboration of Multi-Robot Systems, and Eng. Mahmoud Abdullah is working on Intelligent control of Rehabilitation robots.
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Our research group is currently involved in two ongoing research projects with Skoltech. The titles of the projects are: “Protecting copyrights of deep neural networks via digital Watermarking” and “Advanced SLAM with DNN for outdoor delivery robots navigating in harsh weather conditions.” The project has been funded by the University of Sharjah and Skoltech for two years.
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