Research

With our ongoing research on technologies critical to defence, TL@SUTD's current focus is Robotics Intelligence and Sensors.
Core thrusts

Our key strategies

Our research on Robotics Intelligence and Sensors mainly explores 7 focus areas.
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Fast, agile platforms and navigation

Platform propulsion, control adaptation, motion planning and exploration.


Robust and active perception

Robust and active environmental sensing, mapping and localisation.


Foundation model

Foundational models for robotic systems and human-robot interaction (HRI).


Digital twin

Generating training datasets and simulation of human-robot systems.


Human-robot collaboration

Seamless HRI and human modelling.


Heterogenous multi-robot task planning

Human/context-aware task planners and collective autonomy.


High-speed autonomous edge robotic system engineering

Edge systems, hardware-software co-design, and deployed model validation.


Seed grant call

Exploring innovation

Our grants provide initial funding to help researchers explore novel concepts or develop proofs of concept to address key challenges in defence and security application, as well as technologies critical to defence.

Highlighted research capabilities

Dive into key research projects that TL@SUTD has embarked on.