June 26, 2015 – Patrick McGarey unveiling the new Tethered Robotic Explorer (TReX) robot to a group of attendees at the Field and Service Robotics conference (FSR) demo day.  Photo credit: François Pomerleau – University of Toronto.

TReX can climb various kinds of steep terrain with the help of its onboard tether management system. Here it climbs a 60 degree metallic roof of the UTIAS Mars Dome. Photo credit: Hallie Siegel.

June 26, 2015 – TReX climbs a small flight of stairs before entering the Mars Dome at UTIAS. Photo credit: François Pomerleau – University of Toronto.

TReX weighs roughly 90 kg and was built on a Husky from Clearpath Robotics. Photo credit: François Pomerleau – University of Toronto.

June 26, 2015 – Grizzly RUV negotiating a sharp turn on a bumpy terrain composed of sand and gravel. The Grizzly RUV is built by Clearpath Robotics and weighs around 1000 kg. Autonomous driving capabilities were demonstrated over a long distance using only one stereo camera in a GPS denied environment. Photo credit: François Pomerleau – University of Toronto.

Grizzly RUV crossing dense vegetation and reaching autonomously one of its intermediate goals under a blue gazebo. The robot can drive through different types of environments — indoors, outdoors, on roads, and through tall grasses — using the same algorithms. Photo credit: François Pomerleau – University of Toronto.

June 26, 2015 – Robust control under large perturbations was demonstrated using a quadcopter tracked by a Vicon system. Photo credit: François Pomerleau – University of Toronto.

June 26, 2105 – Karime Pereida Pérez launching a flight sequence for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). In the background, Rikky Duivenvoorden awaiting to apply interference forces on the UAV from inside the flying arena. Photo credit: François Pomerleau – University of Toronto.

June 26, 2015 – The Waterloo Autonomous Vehicles Laboratory hexrotor drone, affectionately named Olga, sports three high-speed wide field-of-view cameras, which it uses to determine its own motion in unknown environments. Olga recently flew in Kelowna, BC at the NCFRN Field Trials, where it used the multi-camera cluster to construct maps of cliff faces and hiking trails, similar to those needed in mining and agriculture inspection applications. Photo credit: François Pomerleau – University of Toronto.

June 26, 2015 – The SL Commander with its sensor suite (laser, stereo camera, mono cameras) on a football field. The SL Commander was built by Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP) under the supervision of MDA. The rover is fully electric and weighs around 1200 kg. The maximal speed (40 km/h) and controllability of the platform were demonstrated by remotely operating the vehicle without a driver. Photo credit: François Pomerleau – University of Toronto.

June 26, 2015 – Participants of the 10th Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR). The conference hosted roughly 100 participants and 42 original scientific papers were presented. Photo credit: François Pomerleau – University of Toronto.