Assistant Professor
Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Olov Andersson is Assistant Professor and WASP Fellow in AI for Autonomous Systems, funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation as of October 1, 2023 at Royal Institute of Technology. Previously (2020-2023), he was a senior researcher in the Autonomous Systems Lab at ETH Zurich under Prof. Roland Siegwart. His research interests include Embodied AI for Autonomous Robots and Vehicles: How to leverage recent advances in AI (e.g. VLM, LLM, …) for improved autonomy and enabling mobile robots to better understand the world to efficiently navigate and carry out everyday tasks. (for a sample, see OneMap). Another research interest is Full-stack Autonomy in the Real-World: planning, mapping and navigation addressing the challenges of dynamic, uncertain environments. Olov Andersson is Associate Editor of IEEE Robotics Automation Letters.