Autonomous planetary rovers operating in vast unknown environments must operate efficiently because of size, power and computing limitations. Recently, we have developed a rover capable of efficient obstacle avoidance and path planning. The rover uses binocular stereo vision to sense potentially cluttered outdoor environments. Navigation is performed by a combination of several modules that each 'vote' for the next best action for the robot to execute. The key distinction of our system is that it produces globally intelligent behavior with a small computational resource - all processing and decision making are done on a single processor. These algorithms have been tested on our outdoor prototype rover, Bullwinkle, and have recently driven the rover 100 m at a speed of 15 cm/sec. In this paper we report on the extension on the systems that we have previously developed that were necessary to achieve autonomous navigation in this domain.


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    Title :

    Recent progress in local and global traversability for planetary rovers


    Contributors:
    Singh, S. (author) / Simmons, R. (author) / Smith, T. (author) / Stentz, A. (author) / Verma, V. (author) / Yahja, A. (author) / Schwehr, K. (author)


    Publication date :

    2000


    Size :

    7 Seiten, 20 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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