Centre for Biorobotics - Tallinn University of Technology

On June 30, 2025, Simon Godon defended his PhD thesis titled "Legged locomotion on soft and wet terrains". The supervisors were Prof. Maarja Kruusmaa and Dr. Asko Ristolainen. The thesis can be found at: https://doi.org/10.23658/taltech.48/2025

The following video summarizes the thesis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSGhgTRAFCI

Legged locomotion on soft and wet terrains This video summarizes the PhD thesis of Simon Godon, titled "Legged locomotion on soft and wet terrains", conducted at the Centre for Biorobotics, TalTech (T...

This video presents Walid Remmas's PhD research titled 'Contributions to the Modelling and Control of Bio-Inspired AUVs', conducted in collaboration between TalTech and the University of Montpellier.

Bio-inspiration in AUV Technology for enhanced manoeuvrability This video presents Walid Remmas's PhD research titled 'Contributions to the Modelling and Control of Bio-Inspired AUVs', conducted in collaboration between ...

https://taltech.ee/uudised/varske-doktoritoo-kuidas-juhtida-drooni-mis-suudab-manooverdada-igas-suunas

18. detsembril toimub Walid Remmase doktoritöö kaitsmine. Töös uuritakse, kuidas peaks toimuma liikumise juhtimine autonoomse allveedrooni puhul, kui see on manööverdamisvõimeline igas suunas.

Värske doktoritöö: kuidas juhtida drooni, mis suudab manööverdada igas suunas? | TalTech Tallinna Tehnikaülikoolis kaitsmisele tulev doktoritöö uurib, kuidas juhtida autonoomset drooni, mis on manööverdusvõimeline kõigis liikumissuundades, aga mehaaniliselt nii lihtne kui võimalik. VAATA VIDEOT!

A video about experiments that show fault-tolerant control of fin-actuated robots.

Video: https://youtu.be/rV1SK2Dill0
Link to paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2023.115327

Experimental Demonstration of Fault-Tolerant Control for Fin-Actuated Underwater Robots This video complements our recently published paper, where we present the mathematical design, implementation, and experimental validation of a fault-toleran...

https://taltech.ee/en/news/robots-help-get-glimpse-life-underwater

Robots Help Get a Glimpse of Life Underwater | TalTech Water covers a large part of our planet and exploring it is quite a challenge. For some time now, the research community has been working on developing sustainable, autonomous, and remote-controlled robotic vehicles. Roza Gkliva, who recently defended her PhD at the School of Information Technology....

Holiday Greetings from Centre for Biorobotics!

Holiday greetings from Centre for Biorobotics We wish you a happy holiday season and a fruitful 2023!

https://taltech.ee/en/news/underwater-robotics-full-opportunities

Underwater robotics is full of opportunities | TalTech Estonia has one of Europe’s top 15 research teams Professor Maarja Kruusmaa and her team’s research is one of the most expensive in the field. Among artificial intelligence, there is no niche that is more volatile than underwater robotics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsMrJblZCyY

This video is based on the work presented in the following paper:
Remmas, W., Chemori, A., & Kruusmaa, M. (2021). Diver tracking in open waters: A low‐cost approach based on visual and acoustic sensor fusion. Journal of Field Robotics, 38(3), 494-508.

The aim of this study was to design and develop a low‐cost data‐fusion‐based diver tracking control scheme and to implement it on a highly manoeuvrable underwater robot U‐CAT. A data‐fusion based technique combining acoustic and visual signals was proposed. The proposed control strategy was validated through open water field experiments. Promising results were obtained, demonstrating the effectiveness and performance of the proposed data‐fusion‐based control algorithm. The proposed solution demonstrates also that the target can be found, detected, and tracked, even if it is initially far away from a robot operating in poor visibility conditions.

Combining acoustic and visual signals for underwater detection and tracking shows a robust performance in harsh field conditions, and the ability to recover the diver's location when visual detection fails.

This work was supported by the Estonian Research Council Grant IUT‐339.

Diver tracking with AUV based on acoustic and visual data fusion This video is based on the work presented in the following paper:Remmas, W., Chemori, A., & Kruusmaa, M. (2021). Diver tracking in open waters: A low‐cost ap...

A German podcast about bears, biorobotics and more.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3B9J3XY6JmfU9T0AjbIz8R?si=NdP8M07qRVWcizO9m48gxA

Estland: Wilde Bären und Biorobotik aus der Fischperspektive Listen to this episode from Explore - Der National Geographic Podcast on Spotify. In der zweiten Episode unseres Themenmonats bei „Explore“ werfen wir gemeinsam einen Blick auf die heimlichen Waldbewohner Estlands und erkunden tiergleiche Roboter. Moritz Klose ist Programmleiter für den Bereich...

Our researcher Asko Ristolainen speaking about watershed monitoring and analysis in Grenada. Unfortunately only in Estonian.

Intervjuu Biorobootika keskuse teaduri Asko Ristolaineniga seoses Grenada veekeskkonna monitoorimise ja analüüsiga (alates 37:00)
https://vikerraadio.err.ee/1608143374/okoskoop-putuktolmlejad-linnuvaatluse-maraton-rohetehnoloogia