WAVELaboratory

The Waterloo Autonomous Vehicles Laboratory (WAVELab) was founded in 2009 to spearhead research in perception, planning and coordination of autonomous vehicles at the University of Waterloo. Our research goal is to create the next generation of reliable, autonomous robotic vehicles by developing new high-speed algorithms that use a variety of sensors including GPS, vision and Lidar to sense unknown surroundings, develop accurate 3D maps and navigate through the environment safely. Both aerial and ground applications are under investigation, but the underlying theme is that of small platforms with limited payload and computational capabilities.