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

Congratulations Dr. Vuong!
Quan Vuong recently defended his PhD thesis titled “Robot learning through Reinforcement Learning, Teleoperation and Scene Reconstruction”. He will be starting a new adventure in his life at Google Brain. Congratulations Quan!
Papers Accepted at CVPR and ISRR 2022!
Our papers on indoor robot navigation, and manipulation got accepted at Embodied AI workshop in CVPR 2022, and ISRR 2022 respectively. Check out Publications page for more information!
Papers Accepted at CVPR and ISRR 2022!
Four papers at CASE 2022!
Very excited to present FOUR papers at CASE. The research covers topics like manipulation, human face anonymization, and global localization in airport environments. Check out Publications page for more information!
Four papers at CASE 2022!
Paper Accepted at ICRA 2022!
Our paper titled “TridentNetV2 Lightweight Graphical Global Plan Representations for Dynamic Trajectory Generation” has been accepted for publication at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2022, Philadelphia, USA.
Paper Accepted at ICRA 2022!
Congratulations Dr. Parashar!
Priyam recently defended his PhD thesis titled “Using Meta-reasoning for Failure Detection and Recovery in Assembly Domain”. She will be starting a new adventure in her life at Meta. Congratulations Priyam!

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