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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Tracked Vehicle"”.
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Modeling and Simulation of a Multi-Unit Tracked Vehicle
A multi-unit tracked vehicle such as a continuous haulage system is widely used in underground mining applications due to its high mobility and payload capacity on rugged and soft terrain. To automate such a system, a high fidelity model of a tracked vehicle is essential in designing a controller …
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Comparative Analysis of Lightweight Robotic Wheeled and Tracked Vehicle
… a benchmarking analysis for light wheeled and tracked robotic vehicles. Vehicle mobility has long been a key aspect of research for many organizations. According to the Department of Defense vehicle mobility is defined as, "the overall capacity to move from place to place while retaining its …
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Control of an autonomous tracked vehicle and arm using a rule-base reduction based fuzzy expert system
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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Development of the "Discretized Dynamic Expanding Zones with Memory" Autonomous Mobility Algorithm for the Nemesis Tracked Vehicle Platform
The Nemesis tracked vehicle platform is a differentially driven Humanitarian Demining tractor developed by Applied Research Associates, Inc. The vehicle is capable of teleoperational control and is outfitted with a sensor suite used for detecting and neutralizing landmines. Because the detection …
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Optical Remote Sensing of Airborne Particulate Matter to Quantify Opacity and Mass Emissions
… dust emissions from artillery back blast and tracked vehicle movement in desert areas. Dust plumes were also characterized by developing contour maps that describe the plumes' horizontal and vertical dimensions, light transmittance, and temporal variability of size specific PM mass …
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Parametric cost estimation utilizing development-to-production cost relationship applied to the advanced amphibious assault vehicle
… unit cost. Historical data from seven armored tracked vehicle programs is used to test the relationship. A study of this relationship is useful when production has not begun and the estimator wants a means to estimate production costs. Using data from the seven programs, parametric estimating …
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Robust motion planning for autonomous tracked vehicles in deformable terrain
Ensuring the safety of autonomous vehicles during operation is a challenging task. Numerous factors such as process noise, sensor noise, incorrect model etc. can yield uncertainty in robot's state. Especially for tracked vehicles operating on rough terrain, vehicle slip due to vehicle terrain …
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Design of a Helicopter Deployable Ground Robotic System for Hazardous Environments
… of a helicopter deployable unmanned ground vehicle for use in hazardous environments, and presents the benefits of heterogeneous unmanned vehicle teams for operation in beyond line-of-site hazardous environments. The design of a ground robot that is capable of being flown on the …
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Experimental Study on the Mobility of Lightweight Vehicles on Sand
… of the mobility of lightweight autonomous vehicles with varying locomotion platforms on sand. This research involves four segments. The first segment is a review of military criteria for the development of lightweight unmanned ground vehicles, followed by a review a review of current …