About | People | Equipment | Location

About

The VISOR (Vision, Software and Robotics) lab in CSF-4103 is the space that hosts the Bio-inspired Robotics (BOTS) lab and the Atlantic Canada Public Safety Research and Innovation Laboratory, as well as other experiments related to cyber-physical systems. The VISOR lab is equipped with a world-leading purpose-built space for indoor drone testing, incorporating a mechanical "no-fly zone" and a safety curtain around the perimeter of the lab to permit safe observation of drone-based experiments.

People

• Dr. Andrew Vardy
• Swarm robotics
• Biologically inspired robotics

• Dr. Dennis Peters
• Software design
• High-performance computing
• Marine simulation

• Dr. Jonathan Anderson
• Computer security
• Operating systems

• Dr. Ray Gosine
• Robotics
• Machine vision
• Intelligent systems

• Dr. Stephen Czarnuch
• Human motion tracking
• Automated planning

• Dr. Theodore Norvell
• Digital Hardware
• Software, Robotics and Vision

Equipment

Robots

• 12 Kodama robots
  Each Kodama combines a Raspberry Pi computer and a Pololu 3pi robot base.
• 6 microUSV robots
  These are unmanned surface vehicles (USV) that operate on the surface of an indoor tank.
• 4 Canary robots
  Each Canary combines a Pixy intelligent camera and a Pololu Zumo 32U4 robot base.

Robot operating surfaces

A table where the robots drive over a large-screen television that can project patterns upwards to guide their movements.
A stadium-shaped table (makes life easier for robots since there are no corners!).

Miscellaneous equipment

• Decawave localization system
• Intel RealSense D435 cameras
• Hokuyo lidars. Soldering station
• Tools and other hardware

Human motion tracking and detection

• 6 Microsoft Kinect Azure sensors
• 4 Microsoft Kinect V2 sensors
• 2 Microsoft Kinect V1 sensors
• Nvidia TX1 GPU
• Nvidia TX2 GPU
• Oculus Quest
• one computational server
• one high-end GPU computer
• two standard workstations
• several webcams and standard RGB cameras.

Location

CSF-4103
Core Science Facility
Memorial University of Newfoundland 
St. John's, NL