Welcome to the Cognitive Robotics Laboratory! Directed by Prof. Henrik I. Christensen, we are a part of the Contextual Robotics Institute at University of California, San Diego. Our lab conducts cross-disciplinary research across a number of topics spanning robotics, computer vision, and artificial intelligence. We primarily focus on fundamental research in the context of two main integration projects

  • Intelligent home robots: An intelligent home robot is exemplified by a robot that can “reset” your home or put away the groceries or go fetch the coffee from the kitchen. The robot is required to operate in a semi-structured setting, understand the semantic organization of the home and manipulate objects to solve its tasks. A key part of the project is natural interaction with human users and other agents in the environment.
  • Autonomous driving: Autonomous vehicles offers many possible use-cases from local area transportation to logistics and smart manufacturing. The autonomous vehicle laboratory is doing dynamic mapping, detection of other agents, intent recognition and dynamic planning to enable real-time task fulfillment. More details can be found here.

Latest News

Latest Cogrob news

2024 RLC Paper Accepted!
Our Paper titled “A Recipe for Unbounded Data Augmentation in Visual Reinforcement Learning” has been accepted to Reinforcement Learning Conference (RLC) 2024 in Amherst, Massachusetts ! Check out Publications page for more information!
2024 RSS Paper Accepted!
Our Paper titled “Motion Planning in Foliated Manifolds using Repetition Roadmap” has been accepted to Robotics: Science and Systems 2024 Delft, Netherlands! Check out Publications page for more information!
2024 IV SemVecNet Accepted!
SemVecNet Generalizable Vector Map Generation for Arbitrary Sensor Configurations accepted to IV 2024! Check out Publications page for more information! See you in Jeju, Korea soon! [LinkedIn]
Congratulations Dr. D’Ambrosia!
Chris D’Ambrosia recently defended his PhD! Congratulations Chris!
Congratulations Dr. Pal!
Anwesan Pal recently defended his PhD! Congratulations Anwesan!

Contact

  • Cognitive Robotics Laboratory
    University of California San Diego
    Franklin Antonio Hall (FAH) 3302
    9500 Gilman Drive
    La Jolla, CA
  • Enter FAH, take the room to the right on 3rd floor