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Research
Latest funding
- $343,341
Multi-modal calibration and multi-robot navigation in unstructured environments
NSERC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $150,000
ADVENTOR: Advanced Engineering and Training in Next-Generation Mobile Robotics for Human Spaces
NSERC · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $180,000
Multi-sensor navigation and scene reconstruction in subsea environments
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
Multi-modal calibration and multi-robot navigation in unstructured environments
Principal investigators: Forbes, James
Keywords: Transportation systems and services; Ground (road and rail)
ADVENTOR: Advanced Engineering and Training in Next-Generation Mobile Robotics for Human Spaces
Principal investigators: Wu, Amy AR
Keywords: collaborative robots; human-robotic interaction; human studies; intelligent systems; mechatronics; mobile robotics; robot ethics; social robotics; technology and society; unstructured environments
Multi-sensor navigation and scene reconstruction in subsea environments
Principal investigators: Forbes, James JR
Keywords: 3d reconstruction; infrastructure inspection; robotics; simultaneous localization & mapping; subsea navigation
Enhanced Robustness and Performance of Navigation Solutions for Robotic Vehicles
Principal investigators: Forbes, James
Development of Robust Power-Hardware-In-the-Loop Interface Algorithms
Principal investigators: Forbes, James JR
Keywords: alternative energy; control systems; energy and utilities; robust control
Enhanced Robustness and Performance of Navigation Solutions for Robotic Vehicles
Principal investigators: Forbes, James
Keywords: navigation; state estimation; robotic systems; outlier rejection; non-gaussian distributions; inference; machine learning
Multi-UAV Active Simultaneous Localization and Mapping in Unknown Indoor Environments
Principal investigators: Berkane, Soulaimane S
Keywords: Active Collaborative SLAM; Centralized Coordination; Indoor Environments Exploration; Multi-Agent Systems; Nonlinear Observers; Optimal Trajectory Planning; Simultaneous Localisation & Mapping; State Estimation; Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs); Vision-Based SLAM
Infrastructure inspection using a team of unmanned aerial vehicles
Principal investigators: Forbes, James R
Automotive Visual-inertial Navigation
Principal investigators: Forbes, James
Control, Navigation and Guidance Concept Studies [Pre-Phase A] for a Venture Class Orbital Launch Vehicle (5 - 150kgs)**
Principal investigators: Forbes, James
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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