Unmanned Ground Vehicle for Security - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

We are developing autonomous ATVs to secure borders and facility perimeters.

These scouts automatically patrol a desired path, detect and avoid obstacles, and provide operators with live video and audio feeds.

The scouts assist their human counterparts by providing eyes and ears in dangerous locations. Streaming audio and video enable an operator to evaluate threats and suspicious activities from the safety of a command-and-control center. Vehicles automatically detect and avoid obstacles as they navigate assigned patrol areas, relieving operators from constant vehicle monitoring. Many scouts operate concurrently, enabling a security officer to cover an area much larger than could be handled alone.

Displaying 4 Publications

2007

2D Localization of Outdoor Mobile Robots Using 3D Laser Range Data

Takeshi Takahashi

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-07-11, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2007

2006

Learning Obstacle Avoidance Parameters from Operator Behavior

Bradley Hamner, Sanjiv Singh, and Sebastian Scherer

Journal Article, Journal of Field Robotics: Special Issue on Machine Learning Based Robotics in Unstructured Environments, Vol. 23, No. 12, pp. 1037 - 1058, December, 2006

Learning to Drive Among Obstacles

Bradley Hamner, Sebastian Scherer, and Sanjiv Singh

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 2663 - 2669, October, 2006

2005

Learning to Drive Among Obstacles

Bradley Hamner, Sebastian Scherer, and Sanjiv Singh

Workshop Paper, NeurIPS '05 Workshop on Machine Learning Based Robotics in Unstructured Environments, December, 2005