ROC

We are a team of two Scandinavian universities, Danmark Tekniske Universitet (DTU) and Luleå tekniska universitet (LTU), both very active in the scientific fields of Robotics and Autonomous Systems.

Our core expertise covers:

robot perception
manipulation,
motion coordination,
robust control, and
localization in GNSS-denied environments,
We perform applied research both in maritime and aerial domains.

The ROC team has extensive experience in research, focusing on multi-autonomous systems technology. DTU has recently opened the Center for Collaborative Autonomous Systems, which is a multi-disciplinary innovation facility where several departments at DTU collaborate to solve societal challenges through autonomous systems technologies. This includes research and development efforts in drone, ground, surface and underwater robots and their application in real industrial environments. Similarly, LTU is running several ongoing activities, including the coordination and participation in numerous research projects involving multi-agent systems (e.g., H2020 Aeroworks, H2020 SIMS).

The team has vast experience in object detection and tracking, including maritime environments where research in buoys and vessel detection has been conducted. On this topic, the team coordinated the largest Danish project aimed at automating maritime transportation, namely the ShippingLab.

In the past, the ROC team has developed a fully autonomous navigation framework in constrained environments using Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC). Through the DARPA SubT Challenge participation experience was obtained in dark underground mine tunnels requiring the development of a fast and agile aerial navigation to rapidly explore unknown areas and provide feedback to the operator.

The team has strong experience in deploying robotic solutions and autonomous systems in field applications and real environments. The two organizations constituting the team have proven their technical competences in reaching podium positions in several robotic challenges in the past. The achievements are listed hereafter.

DARPA SubT Challenge 2021 (LTU) First Place – Stage 2.

MBZIRC 2020 – (DTU) Second Place – Challenge 3, third Place - Challenge 2, fourth Place – Grand Challenge;

MBZIRC 2017 – (DTU) second Place - Challenge 2, fourth Place – Grand Challenge