Olov Andersson

I am a new WASP Assistant Professor in Learning for Autonomous Systems here at KTH (as of October 1, 2023).

Interests:

• Full-stack autonomy for real-world mobile robots: robust planning, mapping and navigation for dynamic, uncertain environments.
• AI for autonomy: How to leverage recent advances in AI (e.g. VLM, LLM, ...) for improved autonomy. Learning better world representations for planning. Learning to plan, reinforcement learning.

Previously (2020-2023), I was a senior researcher in the Autonomous Systems Lab at ETH Zurich under Prof. Roland Siegwart. Among other things I was:

• On the winning team of the DARPA SubT Challenge (helped lead ASL's part of the winning team CERBERUS) and supervised development of a new autonomous long-range drone for unknown 3D cave environments.
  Washington Post "The $82 Million Super Bowl of Robots": https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/11/10/darpa-robot-competition/
• Lead an ArmaSuisse project on a flying metal detector concept (e.g., humanitarian de-mining). Got picked up in IEEE Spectrum here.
• Lead the mobile manipulation part in EU H2020 project Heron for robotic road repair.

News:

December 8, 2023. Got a chance to talk about the potential of AI robots with Swedish PM Ulf Kristersson when he visited KTH and Danica Kragic as part of his AI initiative. https://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2023/12/statsministern-och-civilministern-besoker-kth/