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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"robotic vehicle"”.
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Design of a minimalist autonomous robotic vehicle
… for the creation of a minimalist autonomous robotic vehicle, based on the Ford Escape. The work builds on prior work performed by the MIT DARPA Urban Challenge team, which competed in the national DARPA Urban Challenge NQE and UCE events in October and November 2007. The MIT team pursued an …
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Kinematic Analysis Of A Two Body Articulated Robotic Vehicle
… of an articulated twin body, four-wheel, robotic vehicle is presented. Polaris, a research platform and contending robotic vehicle in the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC) at Virginia Tech, was redesigned in 2006 to improve the mobility of the vehicle by incorporating an …
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A semi-autonomous vision-based navigation system for a mobile robotic vehicle
Direct teleoperation of a mobile vehicle over a communications channel with delay on the order of one second is problematic for precise maneuvering and obstacle avoidance. To curb both operator vigilance and maneuvering mishaps during vehicle teleoperation, this thesis aims to develop a …
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Design and implementation of a magnetic rotary wheel encoder for a self-driving robotic vehicle
… wheel encoder for a fleet of autonomous electric vehicles that will provide shuttle service across MIT's campus. Currently no self-driving vehicles exist for such a function, especially for mobility on a college campus. In an effort to assist the system's simultaneous localization and mapping …
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Development of a Next-generation Experimental Robotic Vehicle (NERV) that Supports Intelligent and Autonomous Systems Research
… the development of truly autonomous ground vehicles capable of performing complex navigation tasks. As a result, the demand for practical unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) systems has increased dramatically in recent years. Central to these developments is maturation of emerging mobile robotic …
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Design and implementation of a multiprocessor system for position and attitude control of an underwater robotic vehicle
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1990.
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Design and integration of a three degrees-of freedom robotic vehicle with control moment gyro for the Autonomous Multiagent Physically Interacting Spacecraft (AMPHIS) testbed
… of the Naval Postgraduate School's Spacecraft Robotics Laboratory, to simulate autonomous guidance, navigation and control (GNC) for spacecraft proximity operations and assembly within the framework of the Autonomous Multi-Agent Physically Interacting Spacecraft project. The new spacecraft …
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Motion Control Theory Needed in the Implementation of Practical Robotic Systems
… in the production of industrial and commercial robotics are motor control and obstacle navigation algorithms. This is especially true in the field of autonomous robotic vehicles, and this application will be the focus of this work. This work is divided into two parts. Part I describes the motor …
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Detecting cyber-physical threats against autonomous robotic systems in routine missions
… and functionality of these systems, from in-vehicle driver assistance to smart city infrastructure and robotics. These technologies rely on a variety of sensors, actuating nodes and control communications. Each sensor adds context by which the autonomous system can better understand its …
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Comparative Analysis of Lightweight Robotic Wheeled and Tracked Vehicle
… 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 ability to …
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Obstacle detection for robot navigation using structured light
… poor angular resolution, thereby preventing vehicles from navigating through narrow spaces. Other systems require considerable processing to resolve objects. The work in this thesis attempts to design a small, lightweight, low-cost, and low-power system to detect obstacles in the direct field …
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Humanizing autonomy : social scientists' and engineers' futures for robotic cars
… will be many ways to achieve any particular robotic performance. Through ethnographic fieldwork at a site of robotic vehicle development, I investigate alternative strategies for robotic cars and discuss their social implications. Supported by a framework from multispecies ethnography and the …
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Control interface for a high velocity teleoperated robot
… sight. A microrover is a small, lightweight, robotic vehicle, often less than a meter in length, used to provide a mobility platform for mounting a variety of sensors. Traditional remotely operated microrover systems (where the operator cannot see the microrover) are unable to operate at …
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Robust randomized trajectory planning for satellite attitude tracking control
… a randomized trajectory planning algorithm, a robotic vehicle can autonomously maneuver through a field of moving obstacles in a robust manner. The guidance strategy provides executable plans that are robust to known error sources when supplied with an estimate of the initial state, the goal, …
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Robotic Eavesdropping: Effects of Bioinspired Acoustic Sensing on Tracking and Estimation
… may effect the information available to a robotic vehicle. Our first investigation was an experimental verification of the capabilities of a stereo sensor for passively tracking an ultrasonic sound source using limited a priori information about the target being tracked. Our results pos- …
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Stability and robustness analysis tools for marine robot localization and mapping applications
… to explore the fundamental stability issues of a robotic vehicle carrying out localization, mapping, and feedback control in a perturbation-filled environment. Motivated by the application of an ocean vehicle performing an autonomous ship hull inspection, a planar vehicle model performs …
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Land Leveling Using Optimal Earthmoving Vehicle Routing
… for land leveling, using optimal earthmoving vehicle routing. It addresses the Shortest Route Cut and Fill Problem (SRCFP) developed by Henderson, Vaughan, Wakefield and Jacobson [2000]. The SRCFP is a discrete optimization search problem, proven to be NP-hard. The SRCFP describes the process …
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A robust motion planning approach for autonomous driving in urban areas
… RRT, that is designed specifically for large robotic vehicles and uncertain, dynamic environments. Five main extensions have been made to the original RRT algorithm to improve performance in this type of applications. The closed-loop system is used for state propagation, enabling easy handling …
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Computational strategies for understanding underwater optical image datasets
A fundamental problem in autonomous underwater robotics is the high latency between the capture of image data and the time at which operators are able to gain a visual understanding of the survey environment. Typical missions can generate imagery at rates hundreds of times greater than highly …
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Computational strategies for understanding underwater optical image datasets
A fundamental problem in autonomous underwater robotics is the high latency between the capture of image data and the time at which operators are able to gain a visual understanding of the survey environment. Typical missions can generate imagery at rates hundreds of times greater than highly …
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