We are excited to share our latest IEEE RA-L paper, “VDS-Nav: Volumetric Depth-Based Safe Navigation for Aerial Robots–Bridging the Sim-to-Real Gap”
VDS-Nav: A novel navigation paradigm that enables aerial robots to safely navigate using linear velocities and yaw rates inferred directly from a sequence of depth images, eliminating the need for pre-trained latent space encoders.
Since July 2025, Dr. Alper Yegenoglu has joined the RAT Group. With his strong background in machine learning and neuromorphic computing, he will support RAT's research and teaching for the next 3 years.
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Since June 2025, Vikas Chidananda, M.Sc. has joined the RAT Group as a PhD Student. He will work within the EU Horizon Project SPEAR, where we will work on morphable robots with soft elements and on how symmetries of systems can be used to enhance learning of robot control policies.
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RAT hat an amazing experience at IEEE SSCI 2025 in Trondheim! As one of the General Co-Chairs, Professor Kayacan has led this event alongside fantastic colleagues, Pauline Haddow and Jon Garibaldi. A huge shoutout to all members of incredible organizing committee for their hard work and dedication! RAT is grateful to everyone who made this event a success! IEEE IEEE Computational Intelligence Society IEEE SSCI
On 21.01.2025, Professor Erdal Kayacan delivered his inaugural lecture at Paderborn University. ” His work addresses how robots can adapt to unpredictable environments, enhancing their reliability and efficiency in real-world applications.
Researchers at RAT-group, Paderborn University, are involved in a pioneering Europe-wide project seeking to improve safety, health and environmental standards in ship recycling. To achieve this, partners from science and industry are taking a new approach using robotics and AI systems. The project was launched in January for a period of four years, and has received a total of nearly eight million euros of funding from the European Union (EU), of…
Aerial robots are already used for tasks such as checking wind turbines for damage, and can thus undertake vital tasks that would be hazardous for humans. To enable further areas of application and optimise the technology in the future, an international consortium is now seeking to research the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in drone development.
As well as Paderborn University, the project also involves the Norwegian University of Science…
We are happy to share that our Group will attend the IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023) with two papers: 1) CAMETA: Conflict-Aware Multi-Agent Estimated Time of Arrival Prediction for Mobile Robots by Jonas le Fevre Sejersen, and Erdal Kayacan 2) MIMIR-UW: A Multipurpose Synthetic Dataset for Underwater Navigation and Inspection by Olaya Alvarez-Tunon, Hemanth Kanner, Luiza Ribeiro Marnet, Huy Pham,…
We are happy to share that our Group will attend the 56th International Symposium on Robotics (ISR Europe 2023) with three papers: 1) ORB-Net: End-to-end Planning Using Feature-based Imitation Learning for Autonomous Drone Racing by Huy Xuan Pham, Micha Heiss, Dung Tran, Minh Anh Nguyen, Anh Quang Nguyen and Erdal Kayacan. 2) Guidance of Agricultural Ground Robots Team with an Aerial Vehicle: A Cost-Effective Solution by Halil Ibrahim Ugurlu,…
Our paper "Stability Analysis of Event-Triggered Anytime Control With Multiple Control Laws” will be published in the January issue of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
