The DIS Robotics Laboratory, established in 1987, is part of the Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica (DIS) at the Università di Roma "La Sapienza". The Laboratory is committed to the development and experimental validation of advanced planning and control techniques for industrial and service robots. Both graduate and undergraduate students carry out their final projects here.

The research experience of our group includes modeling, planning and control of:

• robots with flexible elements
• mobile robots
• nonholonomic mechanical systems
• kinematically redundant robots
• underactuated manipulators
• robots in contact with the environment

The adopted techniques include:

• nonlinear control

• iterative learning control

• hybrid force-motion control
• optimization algorithms
• graph-search methods
• optimal control
• fuzzy logic and evidential reasoning
• filtering and estimation theory
• sensor fusion

Over the years, our research has been funded through several national and european projects involving:

CNR (Italian National Research Council)

EU (European Union)

MURST (Italian Ministry for University and Scientific Research)

ENEA (Italian Agency for Novel Technologies, Energy, and Environment)

ASI (Italian Space Agency)

Among the others, we have cooperated with the following research institutions:

DIA, Università di Roma Tre, Roma, Italy

LAAS, CNRS, Toulouse, France

Fraunhofer IPA, Stuttgart, Germany