Category: Robotics

Project 6G-SKY concludes with excellent review

June 27, 2025
Posted by Christian Raffelsberger

Lakeside Labs is proud to announce the successful completion of the project 6G for Connected Sky. It has been awarded the highest possible grade “excellent” at the final CELTIC-NEXT EUREKA review on June 26, 2025 at Airbus, Ottobrunn. This recognition reflects the project’s exceptional ambition, technical quality, and strong impact potential for future 6G-enabled airspace connectivity. As leader of the work package “Integration and Demonstration,” Lakeside Labs played an important…

Successful drone test flights for 6G-SKY

April 30, 2024
Posted by Christian Raffelsberger
Group picture at test flights

The research project 6G-SKY has reached a major milestone: Lakeside Labs and the company Twins have successfully conducted a series of flight tests using an integrated drone platform at the Logistics Center Austria South. Aerial image analysis via wireless connectivity The main goal of these flights was to evaluate the performance of three interconnected drones in an image analysis scenario. The drones were equipped with optical sensors and wireless communication…

Robots inspect ship hulls

July 29, 2020
Posted by Melanie Schranz

The objective of the European project BugWright2 is to develop and demonstrate an adaptable autonomous robotic solution for servicing ship outer hulls. By combining the capabilities of autonomous micro air vehicles and small autonomous underwater vehicles, with teams of magnetic-wheeled crawlers operating directly on the surface of the structure, the inspection and cleaning system will be able to seamlessly merge the acquisition of a global overview of the structure with…

Intelligent boarding to ski lifts

November 15, 2017
Posted by Christian Bettstetter

A novel boarding solution for cabin-based transport systems — e.g., ski lifts, cable cars, subways — is being discussed in industry and has already been implemented in the Austrian skiing resort Bad Gastein: In order to avoid long queues at succeeding boarding stations, a display in the boarding area tells the guests how many of them are allowed to enter the next cabin. This form of access control guarantees spare…

Communication demands of drone applications

May 24, 2016
Posted by Evsen Yanmaz

Small drones become increasingly popular for civil applications, including production of movies and delivery of important goods. The wireless communications and networking of drones is an essential building block in such systems. Lakeside Labs researchers have been working in this domain for several years; now they wrote a comprehensive survey article on the characteristics and requirements of drone networks. Evsen Yanmaz, senior researcher and project manager, states: “Our survey quantifies…

Austrian robotics workshop

June 4, 2015
Posted by Christian Bettstetter

About 80 researchers from industry and academia met at the Austrian Robotics Workshop in Klagenfurt on May 7 and 8, 2015, giving talks and demonstrations on recent developments in robotics and autonomous systems. Among them, various Lakeside Labs scientists presented their research in unmanned aerial vehicle systems, namely on wireless communications, collision avoidance, path planning, and video streaming. Two highlights were keynote talks given by invited experts: Sabine Hauert from…

Collaborative mapping with mobile robot teams

January 15, 2015
Posted by Christian Bettstetter

New packages for the Robot Operating System (ROS) are available for autonomous exploration of unknown environments using collaborating mobile robots equipped with cameras. The software offers wireless ad hoc communications between robots, merging of maps from different robots, and coordinated selection of exploration frontiers. A prototype with up to four robots was built that demonstrates its functionality in an indoor environment. There is a broad spectrum of applications for mobile…