The Robotics Perception (ROP) Group belongs to the Robotics Machine Perception (RMP) Department, one of the six departments, of the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics, and Cybernetics (CIIRC) at the Czech Technical University in Prague.
ROP Group deals with machine perception, namely computer vision, tactile perception for robotic manipulation, perception from other sensory modalities, and cognitive approach to human-robot interaction.
In the automotive domain, we perceive the traffic from outside a car and from the ego-car (project UP-Drive). We are interested in situational awareness around a mobile robot (project TRADR) in robotic applications. In dual-arm manipulation with soft objects as garment pieces (project CloPeMa finished in 2015, followed by the project RadioRoSo) and perception in the Industry 4.0 context.
In the human-robot interaction domain we are interested in specifying tasks by language and gestures (Imitrob, Mirracle and iChores GACR and TACR national projects), representing knowledge about the world and tasks (CROW MEYS national project) and optimizing the schedules and motion plans for multiple robots.
ROP group was established in 2013 as a part of Robotics and Machine Perception department of CIIRC CTU. From its inception until 2024, the group was led by prof. Václav Hlaváč. The ROP group follows the tradition of the Center for Machine Perception (CMP), which was formed as an informal team within the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FEL) in 1996 under the supervision of Prof. Václav Hlaváč. Since the creation of CIIRC in 2013, particularly, the ROP and AAG (lead by Tomáš Pajdla) from the Robotics and Machine Perception department maintain close collaboration with CMP. Starting in 2024, the ROP group is headed by Karla Štěpánová.
Head of the ROP group (since 2024):
Mgr. Karla Štěpánová, Ph.D.
karla.stepanova@cvut.cz
Former head of the ROP group (till 2024) prof. Ing. Václav Hlaváč, CSc. Phone: +(420) 224 357 465 vaclav.hlavac@cvut.cz |  |