Activities
The laboratory was established in 1973 by Marco Somalvico, to support research and teaching activities of professors, students and researchers in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Artificial Vision. In particular, the main activities at AIRLab concern:
- Design and development of autonomous robots for applications such as services, manufacturing, entertainment, exploration, edutainment, and rehabilitation
- Bio-mimetic and humanoid robots
- Artificial vision for robotic and industrial applications
- Analysis and interpretation of sensory data and multi-sensory fusion
- Intelligent data analysis, including bio-signals
- Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, with applications in systems of automated negotiation, museum systems, interpretation of sensory data, exploration and operation in unknown environments, support to human bodily functions, environmental monitoring, supervision and control
- Models of communication among agents
- Social software e semantic web
- Intelligent human-machine interfaces, including Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) and emotional interfaces
- Soft computing applications: fuzzy control, fuzzy models, neural networks, genetic algorithms
- Data mining
- Automated learning
- Knowledge-based systems for applications supporting decisions, diagnosis, modelling and prediction of new compounds
- E-Science and bioinformatics
- Affective Computing and emotion detection
- Videogame and robogame design, including computational intelligence techniques
In the 4 sites belonging to AIRLab, more than 20 robots (both on wheels and biomimetic, mostly designed and implemented in the lab), a mechanical and electronics workshop and a large set of sensors and computers are available.
