Research supported by this contract includes perception for road following, terrain mapping for off-road navigation, and systems software for building integrated mobile robots. We overview our efforts for the year, and list our publications and personnel, the provide on several of our subprojects. This contract has supported research on color vision for road following; 3-D perception for terrain mapping and cross-country mobility; and system building for autonomous navigation. We have demonstrated autonomous navigation on a variety of roads, including single lane dirt, gravel, and paved; and multi-lane roads with and without lane markings. Our perception modules use a variety of techniques for video processing (clustering theory, symbolic feature detection, neural nets), and for range data analysis (landmark navigation, reflectance processing). We have also integrated position based navigation (INS and GPS), and combinations of all these techniques into mobile robot systems and demonstrations.
Perception for Outdoor Navigation
1990
99 pages
Report
No indication
English
Navigation & Guidance System Components , Robotics/Robots , Autonomous navigation , Robots , Clustering , Colors , Computer programs , Data processing , Detection , Gravel , Integrated systems , Mapping , Mobile , Mobility , Navigation , Navigation reference , Neural nets , Offroad traffic , Outdoor , Perception , Position(Location) , Processing , Reflectance , Roads , Symbols , Theory , Video signals , Terrain mapping
Perception for Outdoor Navigation. First Year Report
NTIS | 1990
|Outdoor Navigation of Micro-Rovers
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1998
|Visual Routines For Outdoor Navigation
IEEE | 1993
|Visual Routines for Outdoor Navigation
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1993
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