Autonomous Helicopter (HELI) Head: Omead Amidi Mailing address: Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Associated center: VASC Associated lab/group: Helicopter Lab Project Description To develop a vision-guided robot helicopter which can autonomously carry out functions applicable to search and rescue, surveillance, law enforcement, inspection, mapping, and aerial cinematography, in any weather conditions and using only on-board ...

Cooperative Attack Munition Real Time Assessment (CAMRA) Head: Katia Sycara Contact: Michael Rectenwald (mdr2@andrew.cmu.edu) Mailing address: Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Associated center: CIMDS Associated lab/group: Intelligent Software Agents Project Description The Cooperative Attack Munition Real Time Assessment (CAMRA) project is a joint project between the Intelligent Software Agents Lab in the Robotics Instit ...

ICT - Flying Robots Following a joint CSIRO-QUT submission to the Smart State Research Facility Fund, Queensland Premier Peter Beattie recently announced a $3.53 million funding package to help in the creation of a $12 million Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation (ARCAA). ARCAA – Australia’s first high-tech autonomous flight research facility – will capitalise on the CSIRO ICT Centre’s innovative work in robotic helicopters and QUT’s long-standing research into Unmanned Aerial V ...

M A R V I N An Autonomously Operating Flying Robot M ulti-purpose A erial R obot V ehicle with I ntelligent N avigation Since 1993 the Real Time Systems & Robotics Group (PDV) has been developing autonomously operating flying robots for participation in the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International's (AUVSI) International Aerial Robotics Competition (IARC). This work has been done basically by students in the framework of the project course "PDV-/Robot ...

Integrated Robot Controller is a complete robot control and planning software product that includes the following 4 modules: Navigator - for global trajectory planning. Navigator includes a 3-dimensional model of the robot and the workspace. It performs global trajectory planning, generating collision-free paths for the robot based on geometrical models. Pilot - for obstacle avoidance and smoothing. Pilot receives commands from Navigator, performs trajectory generation and reactive obstacl ...

Autonomous UAV Mission System (AUMS) (2002- ) The Autonomous UAV Mission System (AUMS) project is working to develop technologies for automated launching, landing, refueling, and rearming of small Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs.) This effort is sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Joint Robotics Program (JRP). MOTIVATION The use of UAVs in defense and security applications has increased significantly in recent years. Traditional applic ...