The group’s research themes and activities mainly include:

• Exploring fundamental frontier in robot sensing, perception, mapping, planning, artificial intelligence (AI), self-supervised AI, and edge-AI for autonomous agents and intelligence;

• Conducting applied research such as on driving safety, assistive mobility and navigation, and assistance technologies using robotics and AI;

• Creating tools and techniques for programming, simulating, and evaluating populations of machine perception, autonomy, and AI.