WVUIRL
WVU Interactive Robotics Laboratory
https://yugu.faculty.wvu.edu/home
We are a small group of creatively minded people that are trying to change the world(s). Our current research include planetary rover autonomy, robotic precision pollination, underground tunnel exploration, cooperative UAV navigation, and unconventional robot designs. With an over 2:1 robot-to-human ratio, we build real robots and test them in challenging environments.
Force Aware Branch Manipulation To Assist Agricultural Tasks
FloPE: Flower Pose Estimation for Precision Robotic Pollination
WVU Team Mountaineers System Acceptance Review (SAR) for 2025 University Rover Challenge (URC)
The MyActuator Motors Used on WVU URC Rovers
Beautiful Aurora Oct 2024
Loopy Movements: the Emergence of Rotation
Autonomous Driving on a Hiking Trail
Wanderer Competing at URC 2023
Failure: Wanderer Struggled to Close a Door with a Broke Arm and Under Strong Wind During URC 2023
A Swarm of Bugs Over Water Surface
Failure: Phastball Stall in Flight
2023 Mobile Robotics - Returning Home Challenge
2022 Mobile Robotics - Bumper Mapping Challenge
Heimdall at Mars Desert Research Station (2024)
WVU Team Mountaineers System Acceptance Review (SAR) for 2024 University Rover Challenge (URC)
Cooperative Rover Rescue - Manual Control