Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory (AIR Lab) at ITU has been home to many projects on AI, intelligent systems, autonomous robots, robot perception/scene understanding and robot skill learning, since its establishment in 2007. Over 100 students have graduated contributing to publications in top robotics conference and journals. The laboratory hosts several robots including a Baxter humanoid robot. Recent projects have focused on safety in physical robot-object manipulation by designing and developing advanced multimodal task monitoring and situation awareness tools.

Main research topics of AIR Lab:
  • Scene Analysis methods for Cognitive Robots
  • Automated Reasoning and Planning Methods for Cognitive Robots
  • Learning in Cognitive Robots
  • AI methods in video games
  • Multirobot systems, Robot-Sensor Systems

News

1 Nov 24 Cağatay Koç (co-supervised with Sinan Kalkan) has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Object-Aware Interactive Perception". Congrats! 🎉
15 Mar 24 Our recent paper has been accepted to Robotics and Autonomous Systems. A big congrats to Çağatay Koç 🎉
29 Nov 23 Our recent paper has been accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). A big congrats to Arda Inceoglu 🎉
20 Sep 23 Our recent paper has been accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). A big congrats to A. Cihan Ak 🎉
31 Oct 19 Our new TUBITAK project has been accepted for funding.