Oxford Dynamic Robot Systems

A new article from our team has appeared in Autonomous robotics Journal. This paper from Lintong Zhang explore localisation in meshes and 3d Pointclouds Video overview: youtube.com/watch?v=Mch7-C…

PROJECT 2: SafeHike - Remote Monitoring of Small Mammals for Conservation and Public Health • Apply via: main Oxford application • £21,000 tax-free stipend plus fees • Deadline: 3 March Project listing: eng.ox.ac.uk/study/research…

🚨 2x Funded PhD Projects - Please share! 🚨 PROJECT 1: Long-Term 3D Change Detection of Industrial Facilities • Apply via: RAINZ CDT • UK applicants for £31,000 tax-free stipend plus fees. • Deadline: 13 February Project listing: rainz-cdt.ac.uk/study/projects/

PlanarMesh incrementally updates the mesh reconstruction using free-space data and hybrid plane modeling and meshing. Check out the code to see how it reconstructs complex geometry and flat surfaces simultaneously. Developed by Jiahao Wang: ori.ox.ac.uk/people/jiahao-…

🛠️ Software Release 🛠️ PlanarMesh is a real-time algorithm for minimal LiDAR mesh reconstruction: github.com/ori-drs/planar… PlanarMesh directly estimates planar surfaces with high fidelity and data compactness - 10x smaller than SotA methods.

Next month at @NeurIPSConf: @ckassab1 will present a new benchmark for open-vocab scene understanding - OpenLex3D. Webpage & paper: openlex3d.github.io Co-authors: @SachMorin, Martin Büchner, @mmattamala, @kumaraditya_gup, Abhinav Valada, @duckietown_coo, @MauriceFallon

DigiForest researchers from @oxfordrobots demonstrating their mapping technology to students of the Summer School on Forest Ecosystems organised by @m_mokros (@3DForEcoTech ) Sruthi Moorthy (@SalGoTeam)

🚨 HIRING: New Post-Doc Position at @oxfordrobots! I have a new collaborative project working with @DrStephenMellon to further develop our vision-based ultrasound reconstruction system - called ScanLite. Deadline: 8 Sept 2025 Apply here: eng.ox.ac.uk/jobs/job-detai…

🆕 #openaccess paper! #Wildvisualnavigation: fast #traversability learning via pre-trained models and online self-supervision by @mmattamala @JonasFrey96 @GMartius @MauriceFallon et al. 🔓bit.ly/4f0cgvm @dynamicrobots @oxfordrobots @leggedrobotics

It was fantastic to work with Juan Suarez of @ForestryComm in @digiforest_eu. Our team has been working with European partners to develop robot & sensing tech to digitise forests quickly & accurately. Papers: lnkd.in/eFZiJPvi Digiforest website: digiforest.eu

Last week we did a successful field demo of our work in @digiforest_eu in Forest of Dean - with thanks to @Forest_Research and @ForestryEngland Short article - video up coming digiforest.eu/news/2025-02-1…

Our mapping device includes 3 synchronised color cameras; TLS scans for ground truth. We have shown that it can be used to evaluate NeRF/Gaussian Splatting in new ways. Ethan Yifu Tao, Miguel Ángel Muñoz Bañón, Lintong Zhang, Jiahao Wang, Lanke Frank Tarimo Fu, Maurice Fallon.

🚨🚨 New #SLAM #RealityCapture Dataset! 🚨🚨 The Oxford Spires Dataset. New mapping benchmark in Oxford's famous colleges and Blenheim Palace focusing on high quality reconstruction (#nerf #gaussiansplatting) and colorization. dynamic.robots.ox.ac.uk/datasets/oxfor… #spatialai #oxford

We've built a new iteration of our integrated mapping device for new collaborations and projects in 2025! #inspection #ros2 #slam

🚨🚨 Last Reminder: 17 Funded Robotics PhD Positions! 🚨🚨 In the new RAINZ PhD training programme. The deadline for application is 11th February 2025. We have four RAINZ positions at the Oxford Robotics Institute. Details here: ori.ox.ac.uk/rainz

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!! PhD Studentships - Please Retweet !! I have two funded studentships (to start October 25) in @oxfordrobots Studentship 1 is in the space of multi-sensor mapping and scene understanding. I'm open to projects in scene graphs, neural representations and active mapping.

Haedam Oh (who started his PhD with us this month), will give a presentation on Friday, on LiDAR SLAM, multi-session mapping, and localization approaches in forests. Session: FrAT8, Room 8, "Mapping II" paper: robots.ox.ac.uk/~mfallon/publi… Video: youtube.com/watch?v=86l-ox…

Leonard Freissmuth (who visited us from TUM for 6 months) will present an online system to extract tree traits from LiDAR data. With @StefanLeuteneg1 Session: FrPI6T5, Room 5, "Field Robotics" Paper: robots.ox.ac.uk/~mfallon/publi… Video: youtube.com/watch?v=5AJwPE…

Next week, out team will be presenting 3 papers in #IROS2024! The works have been developed in the context of the @digiforest_eu EU Project, and address different aspects of localization, registration, and trait estimation in forest environments. A short thread 🧵