UTIAS News

Celebrating Vanier Scholar Sean Wolfe

Join us in celebrating Sean Wolfe, an exceptional PhD candidate in the Aerospace Mechatronics Research Group at U of T. His remarkable achievement of winning the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship underscores his dedication to shaping the future of aerospace. […]

Graduate students design and build satellites for NASA and other clients

For Alexandre Florio (UTIAS MASc candidate), one of the most thrilling aspects of spacecraft design is that the team only has one chance to get the mission right.  “If your car breaks down on a road, you can go to an auto […]

Spotlight on Robotics Achievers: Olivier Lamarre & Mia Thomas!

In June, the first-ever University of Toronto Robotics Institute end-of-year celebration brought together faculty, students, staff, partners and friends from across the University of Toronto’s St. George and University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) campuses to mark a year of progress, […]

Faculty Spotlight

Professor S.L. Waslander

Toronto Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (TRAILab)

Research Focus
• Simultaneous localization and mapping with dynamic camera clusters, and perception for autonomous driving
• Uncertainty estimation for deep neural networks using classical and learning approaches to improve perception

Current Projects
• Developing active vision techniques that allow robotic platforms to improve robustness through targeted sensor data acquisition
• Public road driving experiments of a fully functional autonomous vehicle for demonstrating state-of-the-art perception and planning methods in real-time on in-vehicle hardware