— Many critical elements for statically stable walking for legged robots have been known for a long time, including stability criteria based on support polygons, good foothold se...
Jonas Buchli, Mrinal Kalakrishnan, Michael Mistry,...
Kat-5 was the fourth vehicle to make history in DARPA's 2005 Grand Challenge, where for the first time ever, autonomous vehicles were able to travel through 100 miles of roug...
Paul G. Trepagnier, Jorge Nagel, Powell M. Kinney,...
This paper describes the development of a multi-robot system for Area Reduction in Humanitarian Demining. In spite of the specific requirements imposed to the work being carried ...
Terrain maps, commonly used for updating elevation values of a moving object (i.e., a traveler), may be conveniently used for detecting and preventing collisions between the trave...
— For a mobile robot it is critical to detect and compensate for slippage, especially when driving in rough terrain environments. Due to its highly unpredictable nature, drift la...