MIST Lab

07/08/2021

16-25 July, Lucerne/online - The Field Campaign gathers the 12 teams who will test and demonstrate their innovative technologies for Space and Earth.

06/03/2021

Meet our new team member Spot from BostonDynamics RobotsAI help us name the robot and feel free to drop your suggestions below! Thanks to Nserc Canada for supporting our research projects and allowing us to use state-of-the art hardware at Polytechnique Montréal
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Rencontrez notre nouveau membre d'équipe, le Spot de BostonDynamics RobotsAI. Aidez-nous à nommer le robot et n'hésitez pas à nous faire part de vos suggestions ci-dessous ! Merci à Nserc Canada pour le soutien à nos projets de recherche et de nous permettre d'utiliser du matériel de pointe à Polytechnique Montréal

04/10/2021

Student teams affiliated with Professor Giovanni Beltrame (Department of Computer and Software Engineering) are increasingly busy these days! Part of Professor Beltrame’s team is

03/12/2021

After almost two years of work, we are releasing as open-source (both hardware and software) our new collision-tolerant drone, the CogniFly! This sub-250g drone uses a combination of rigid struts and flexible joints (inspired by arthropods) to fly like a normal quadcopter but with the ability to hit (really hard!) and bounce off obstacles undamaged. Bonus: it has a neural network accelerator on board (Coral TPU or Google AIY), it can be manufactured with a standard 3D printer, it has snap-in assembly, the struts can be dollar-store bamboo skewers, and it's designed for automatic battery swapping. Work done at Polytechnique Montréal !

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.04423
Website/GitHub: https://thecognifly.github.io/
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Z54x4MjoE

12/23/2020

Best wishes to everyone!

11/03/2020

Third place at the A-TEC competition! Not bad, and the only international team in the top 10!

10/27/2020

The A-TEC is going well for the team! Results on Friday. Special credit to Yanjun Cao for the excellent work

05/21/2020

Check out our new paper: a full design flow, from simulation to deployment, for applications. Code, datasets, videos included!
Polytechnique Montréal ÉTS - École de technologie supérieure

Many applications benefit from the use of multiple robots, but their scalability and applicability are fundamentally limited when relying on a central control station. Getting beyond the centralized approach can increase the complexity of the embedded software, the sensitivity to the network topolog...

01/15/2020

How can a robot swarm "talk" to an operator by moving its elements? We study the subject at Polytechnique Montréal on our new paper:

"Collective expression: how robotic swarms convey information with group motion"

AbstractWhen faced with the need of implementing a decentralized behavior for a group of collaborating robots, strategies inspired from swarm intelligence often avoid considering the human operator, granting the swarm with full autonomy. However, field missions require at least to share the output o...

11/15/2019

Summary of a recent experiment. Video in French with English subtitles

Les drones sont des plateformes robotiques prometteuses pour faire de l’exploration planétaire ou pour intervenir en urgence dans des zones difficilement accessibles. Cependant,

11/11/2019

Des drones intelligents à vocation humanitaire pour rétablir les communications en zones sinistrées.