3 papers are accepted in RA-L; 4 papers will be presented in IROS 2023.
2023-06
Team NYCU’s Unmanned Surface Vehicle Mission and Earned a Third Place in the 2022 Maritime RobotX Challenge.
2023-04
the challenge has to complete various tasks including passing through entrance and exit
gates, taking off and landing on platforms, capturing waterborne targets, using hydrophones
to confirm the location of underwater sound sources, following paths accurately and crossing
floating buoys to enable the vessel to enter from a designated location and successfully
complete the mission.
RoboNation published in The
Australian-April 5,2023
NYCU NEWS-April 11,2023
Paper are accepted by IROS 2022
2022-07
WFH-VR: Teleoperating a Robot Arm to set a Dining Table across the Globe via Virtual Reality
project link
Paper accepted for publication on IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and selected for presentation on 2021 IEEE international Conference on Robotics and Automation
2021-02-28
Cross-Modal Contrastive Learning of Representations for Navigation using Lightweight,
Low-Cost Millimeter Wave Radar for Adverse Environmental Conditions
project link
Prof. Nick Wang is selected to receive the Award of Outstanding Contribution For Young Scholars
2019-12-06
The award is raised to praise the outstanding contribution on innovating research, education and school reputation. Prof. Nick Wang has receive lots of affirmation and is selected to receive the award. Thanks to the devotion of the whole lab and the support of everyone.
1st Place Spotlight Poster in RobotX Interactive forum held in Singapore
2019-12-05
RobotX devoted to encouraging the innovators to make more substantial contributions to the robotics community. RobotX interactive forum is one of the platforms to connect and collaborate with fellow students, senior officials and industry leaders. Based on our research results, we propose a cross-domain autonomous system. Duckieboat and Duckiefloat are combined for long-term heterogenous operation. Furthermore, our poster has been selected for the moring Poster Spotlight session (Dec 5th in 2019). After evaluations, at last, our poster becomes the top poster.
Prof. Nick Wang and NCTU are selected to receive the Research Award of Facebook PyRobot: Democratizing Robotics
2019-10-13
Our proposal titled "Extending PyRobot Education Platform and LocoBot Manipulation Benchmarks" is selected, and we will receive a robot from the Facebook AI Research team. Look forward to the collaboration.
The first patent in ARG!
2019-09-11
Our first lab patent is approved! Click the video link for more information!
Team NCTU ranked the 7th among the 11 remarkable teams in the tunnel circuit of DARPA Subterranean Challenge.
2019-08-22
We were fighting through the tough underground environments with limited communication and
rough terrain. We manage to make our robot to autonomously navigate and score, pushing us to
the 7th among the 11 remarkable teams. Team NCTU will participate the urban circuit in Feb.,
2020.
Duckiepond demo in MOOS-DAWG19
2019-07-31 ~ 2019-08-08
Team NCTU is qualified to compete in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge
2019-05-21
We are honored to be parts of the DARPA Subterranean Challenge, and are going Pittsburgh to
participate the tunnel circuit on August 15-22.
DARPA News Team Website
Team NCTU competed in the 2018 RobotX Challenge, Hawaii.
2018-12-16
Team NCTU won "the best single day" award in the qualifition, and was the only first-year
team in the semi-final and final in the RobotX 2018. We ranked the 5th out of the 15 teams
of top schools from three continents around the world. The broadcast of the final is : video link here:
ARG Thanksgiving dinner
2018-11-28
At the warm moment, We invited all the team members of the laboratory included AIDO, RobotX, Mobile Manipulator team to have a dinner together. Thank you for your hard work for the research. Your efforts take ARG to the world.
RobotX team NCTU
2018-11-20
This day we got together to prepare the shipping process for WAM-V and leave a good moment by the picture.
Minister of Science and Technology visited RobotX NCTU
2018-10-27
The Minister of Science and Technology and other executives visited Zhuhu to visit the RobotX practice site. The Minister has great interest in WAM-V and team design perception and AI technology. (with Brian left 1, Monica right 2, David right 1)
Minister of Science and Technology visited Duckietown
2018-10-27
The Minister of Science and Technology (in the middle of picture), other executives , and The NCTU President took a photo in the background of the AI driving Olympic competition venue Duckietown.
NCTU president visited our Lab
2018-06-08
The NCTU President M. C. Frank Chang and Senior Vice President C.-H. Chen visited us for our latest work of RobotX!
When Art Meets Tech
2018-04-08
Last year, the cool guys redefine "AI" as "Authentic Identity", hoping to trace back the
essence of human beings and explore the true self. We cooperated with team from Institute Of
Applied Arts to build "fiber installation arts" and showed the works on 2018 NCTU Art
Fair.
News
The Coming of WAM-V
2018-04-07
We put our vehicle in the middle of the lake with a crane. It represents the topic of
"Unmanned Surface Vehicle" and will be displayed on the NCTU 60th anniversary
celebration.
News
Our Live Competition Proposal for "The AI Driving Olympics" is accepted by NIPS 2018
2018-03-13
This live competition is designed to explore which approaches work best for what tasks and
subtasks in a complex robotic system. The participants will need to design algorithms that
implement either part or all of the management and navigation required for a fleet of
self-driving miniature taxis.
NIPS
Website
Our Duckietown project was introduced by National Education Radio Department
2018-03-03
Dr. Wang and Eric Lu was invited to talk about the Duckietown project that utilized various
sensors to implement automatic driving. In addtion, they talked about the industrial
development in Taiwan. How the robotic technology will overcome the deadlock for traditional
industry.
Facebook Video Radio channel
NCTU is awarded a Wave Adaptive Modular Vessel (WAM-V)
2017-12-15
NCTU will compete the RobotX Challenge in 2018. Prof. Nick Wang and David Chen participated
the 2017 RobotX Forum in Sydney, and received the award.
Prof. Nick Wang was in the inaugural RobotX competition was held in Singapore in Oct. 2014.
The purpose of the competition was to challenge teams to develop new strategies for tackling
unique and important problems in marine robotics. Ultimately the MIT/Olin team narrowly
won first place in a competitive field.
MIT News for the 2014 Competition
Prof. Nick Wang received the Young Electrical Engineer Award
2017-12-08
Thanks to the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering, Taiwan and Department of Electrial and Computer Engineering, NCTU.
Robotics Seminar @ NCTU
2017-11-07 to 2018-01-03
It is our pleasure to invite the key members in the MIT/Princeton Team for the Amazon Picking/Robotics Challenges. Special thanks to Peter Yu who co-organized the event. This is an official course in NCTU with 1 credit for undergraduate students.
Prof. Nick Wang and Monica Lin attended SET iNEW for a Live Interview
2017-10-20
Prof. Nick Wang and Monica Lin showed Duckiebots and introduced the missions of the graduate robotics program in NCTU.SET NEWS Interview Video (in Chinese)
Our paper "Automatic Optimization of Wayfinding Design" is accepted by TVCG
2017-10-07
Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) is the top journal in computer graphics. Thanks to Craig Yu, Quincy Huang, and the colleagues in UMass Boston, and congrate Monica Lin for her first journal paper.
Congratulate Daniel Huang who received the PhD program scholarship.
Congratulate to Eric Lu who will be a visiting student in ETHZ
Prof. Nick Wang received the MediaTek Junior Chair Professor Award
Our work on wearable navigation for the blind was covered by the Economist and many media, and published in ICRA and ISSCC
The EconomistMIT NEWS
Apple Daily, Taiwan
