We are interested in designing applications for autonomous mobile robots and robot swarms to accomplish tasks such as terrain analysis, search and rescue, and chemical plume source tracing. These tasks require robots to avoid obstacles and reach a goal. We use X80Pro mobile robots designed and developed by Dr.Robot Inc. for task applications. The vendor provided software framework with graphica...

A mobile robot's major purpose is to get its destination by traveling over an optimum path defined various parameters such as time, distance, and the safety from any impediments in path. As a result, backbone of autonomous robot planning obstacle avoidance. Several algorithms for avoidance have been presented researchers, each with own set benefits drawbacks. This paper focuses on two parts; fi...

In this paper, we present a framework and the software architecture for the deployment of multiple autonomous robots in an unstructured and unknown environment with applications ranging from scouting and reconnaissance, to search and rescue and manipulation tasks. Our software framework provides the methodology and the tools that enable robots to exhibit deliberative and reactive behaviors in a...

The recent upsurge in interest in autonomous robots for combat applications has focused considerable attention on several of the obvious technical issues (e.g, target recognition, autonomous navigation, route planning). However, several technical issues exist which remain unapproached and, in some cases, even unacknowledged by the robotics community. This paper explores three such issues: (1) r...

Rescue robotics is an important steppingstone in the scientific challenge to create autonomous systems. There is a significant market for rescue robots, which has unique features that allow a fruitful combination of application oriented developments and basic research. Unlike other markets for advanced robotics systems like service robots, the rescue robotics domain benefits from the fact that ...