Current Mars rovers travel a few kilometers per year. Future rovers will need to travel a couple orders of magnitude faster than that in order to move from safe landing zones to a...
Abstract— Long range navigation by unmanned ground vehicles continues to challenge the robotics community. Efficient navigation requires not only intelligent on-board perception...
David Silver, Boris Sofman, Nicolas Vandapel, J. A...
In this paper, we investigate the use of high resolution aerial LADAR data for autonomous mobile robot navigation in natural environments. The use of prior maps from aerial LADAR ...
Nicolas Vandapel, Raghavendra Donamukkala, Martial...
In future planetary exploration missions, rovers will be required to autonomously traverse challenging environments. Much of the previous work in robot motion planning cannot be s...
This paper describes a speciation method that allows an evolutionary process to learn several robot behaviors using a single execution. Species are created in behavioral space in ...