NASA’s Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) have collected a great diversity of geological science results, thanks in large part to their surface mobility capabilities. The six wheel r...
Jeffrey J. Biesiadecki, Chris Leger, Mark W. Maimo...
ct This paper willpresent the resultsof a comparative study of a set of vision-based control strategies that have been applied to the problem of steering an autonomous vehicle alon...
Jana Kosecka, Robert Blasi, Camillo J. Taylor, Jit...
The availability of efficient mapping systems to produce accurate representations of initially unknown environments is recognized as one of the main requirements for autonomous mo...
Often remote investigations use autonomous agents to observe an environment on behalf of absent scientists. Predictive exploration improves these systems’ efficiency with onboa...
— When an emergency occurs within a building, it may be initially safer to send autonomous mobile nodes, instead of human responders, to explore the area and identify hazards and...