A Tele-Autonomous Heavy Duty Robotic Lawn Mower

Robotic Rock Classification and Autonomous Exploration

Autonomous Agent Navigation Based on Textural Analysis

Navigating an autonomous agent outdoors can be a challenging task. As a basis for this research, the autonomous agent in question is that of an autonomous robotic lawnmower. Mowing a lawn can be a difficult, tedious, and sometimes hazardous chore for the human operator. The goal of this paper is to report on ongoing research of using the visual property of texture to design a system which gives...

Robot Navigation and Textural Analysis

We present a method for navigating an autonomous agent based on the textures present in an environment. Specifically, the autonomous agent in question is that of a robotic lawn mower. If we can successfully differentiate the textures of the cut and uncut lawn surfaces, then we can track the boundary between them and mow in a pattern as a human would. The system uses the wavelet transform as the...

Economically Autonomous Robotic Entities

We propose economically autonomous behavior as a novel goal for robotic systems. Currently examples of robotic autonomy are often limited to restricted physical environments such as a factory or road. In this paper we instead restrict the notion of autonomy to a social environment: the economy. We define economically autonomous behavior and describe different levels of independence culminating ...

The Combat Causal Reasoner Approach to Robotic Control

This paper describes an approach to autonomous robotic control that enables cooperative, tactically correct robotic behaviors that human teammates understand. For maximum effectiveness, unmanned systems (UMSs) must be able to support dismounted warfighters in high-intensity, high-operational-tempo (OPTEMPO) situations without becoming a source of distraction. Current models of robotic control r...