ASPIRE Lab
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, IIT Hyderabad

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ASPIRE Lab at IITH focuses on advancing autonomous robotic systems endowed with perception, learning, and intelligent decision-making in complex environments. Our research covers a broad spectrum of robotic platforms, including but not limited to, swarms of aerial drones, quadruped robots, biped / humanoid robots, human-robot interaction, wheeled mobile robots, and AUVs / underwater robots.

Our work combines principles of conventional control theory with learning-based approaches such as deep reinforcement learning and robot vision to develop systems capable of adaptive, data-driven behavior. Through these efforts, ASPIRE aims to integrate model-based understanding with data-driven intelligence to develop reliable and efficient autonomous systems for exploration, interaction, and real-world operation.