The Machine Intelligence Laboratory (MIL) provides a synergistic
environment dedicated to the study and development of intelligent,
autonomous robots. The faculty and students associated with the
laboratory conduct research in the theory and realization of machine
intelligence covering topics such as machine learning, real-time
computer vision, statistical modeling, robot kinematics, autonomous
vehicles, teleoperation and human interfaces, robot and nonlinear
control, computational intelligence, neural networks, and general
robotics. Applications of MIL research include autonomous underwater
vehicles (AUVs), autonomous water surface vehicles (ASVs), autonomous
land vehicles, autonomous air vehicles (AAVs including quadcopters
and micro air vehicles, MAVs) , swarm robots, humanoid robots, and
autonomous household robots.
MIL's
SubjuGator
is the three time champion autonomous submarine
of the AUVSI/ONR underwater competition (2005-2007).
We also won the static division of the 2011 ION Robot Lawnmower
competition with MIL's
InstiGator robot lawnmower. In 2013, MIL will
participate in our first AUVSI/ONR water surface vechicle competition
with our
PropaGator robot boat.
In the fall of 2005, MIL physically moved next door to
CIMAR
(The Center for Intelligent Machines and Robotics)
in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department. We
relocated our lab facilities and faculty offices
adjacent to the CIMAR labs and offices in order to streamline
our collaborations.
With MIL (from Electrical and Computer Engineering Department)
and CIMAR working together, the possibilities are incredible.
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Announcements
- The
SubjuGator, UF's autonomous underwater vehicle (i.e., submarine), came in second place in the 2012 AUVSI Foundation and ONR's 15th International RoboSub Competition. Our team
will compete again in July, 2013.
- The
PropaGator, UF's autonomous boat, will participate for the first time in the 2013 AUVSI Foundation and ONR's 6th International RoboBoat Competition in July, 2013.
- The
InstiGator, UF's autonomous lawn mower, won first place in the Static Division at the 8th Annual ION Robotic Lawn Mower Competition on June 4th, 2011, in Beavercreek, Ohio.
This competition is no longer active.
- MIL and CIMAR hosted Florida Conference on Recent Advances in Robotic (FCRAR 2011) on May 4-5, 2011, at the University of Florida. See
http://cimar.mae.ufl.edu/fcrar2011/
for more info.
- The Urban NaviGator, our robot car created for the DARPA Urban Grand Challenge, by UF and
CIMAR/MIL's Team Gator Nation.
-
Good Morning America (ABC) video
at UF from March 10, 2008 includes footage of our Team Gator Nation DARPA Urban Challenge vehicle.
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Proposal video of our Team Gator Nation DARPA
Urban Challenge Entry.
- A story about the DARPA Grand Challenge (which included a CIMAR robot
called NaviGATOR) was on the Daily Planet on October 14, 2005.
The
video segment can be seen here
(from the Discovery Channel website)..
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SubjuGator video for 2005-2006.
- A story about MIL's SubjuGator was televised on Discovery's The
Science Channel (Cox Digital Cable channel 101 in Gainesville) on
Friday, February 10, 2006 at 8pm and 11pm (EST) on a show called
Discoveries this Week.
It also was shown on Feb 10 at 11pm, on Feb 11 at 3am & 10am, Feb 12 at
8pm & 11pm and on Feb 13 at 3am, 9am & 1pm. You can
watch this video here.
I'm sorry about the poor sound quality.
- New to MIL? Join the MILers mailing list
here.
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SubjuGator
SubjuGator is an autonomous underwater vehicle designed and built by graduate
and undergraduate students
of the Machine Intelligence Lab (MIL). SubjuGator has competed fourteen times in
the Association for Unmanned
Vehicles Systems International (AUVSI) underwater competition, placing in the top 3 eight times including
first place in 2005, 2006 and 2007.
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PropaGator
PropaGator is an autonomous water surface vehicle designed and built by graduate and undergraduate students
of the Machine Intelligence Lab (MIL). PropaGator will compete for the first time in the AUVSI Foundation and ONR's 6th International RoboBoat Competition in July, 2013.
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Swarm
We are developing a swarm of air and ground vehicles, starting with a heterogeneous group (presently three) of hex- and quad-copters and 6 dune buggies...
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InstiGator
InstiGator is an autonomous lawn mower designed and built by undergraduate and graduate students
of the Machine Intelligence Lab (MIL). InstiGator has competed twice in Annual ION Robotic Lawn Mower Competitions, earning a second place in 2010 and first place in 2011 (both in the static division).
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Koolio
Koolio is a traveling autonomous refrigerator robot - featured on MSNBC's
Countdown with Olbermann
on April 21st, 2004. It is designed to autonomously deliver refreshments on
demand (via the web). Un
fortunately, it only works in the 3rd floor of Benton Hall at the University of
Florida - which happens
to be thesfloor houses the Machine Intelligence Lab...
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