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Current NREC Projects [Past Projects]

• Automated Turf Management - This project deals with automated management and mowing of large areas of turf, such as golf courses, sports fields, and parks
• Autonomous Agricultural Spraying - We are developing ground-based vehicles for pesticide application.
• Burro - Automates copper processing
• Caisson Construction 3D Modeling System - The Kajima project is developing a system to image/sense/map the terrain of the interior of a caisson.
• Conveyor Belt Inspection System - NREC designed, built and tested a high-speed "machine vision" system for monitoring the condition of conveyor belts such as those used in underground coal mines.
• Crusher - NREC designed and developed the Crusher vehicle to support the UPI program's rigorous field experimentation schedule.
• Demeter - The Demeter project is developing a next-generation self-propelled hay harvester for agricultural operations.
• Explorer^TM - The NREC is developing an untethered, long range (2,500 ft +), gas line visual inspection robot system that provides real-time video from inside the line, can be deployed in live lines, and can pass through all angles and bends of both 6" and 8" lines.
• Gas Mains Repair and Inspection System for Live Entry Environments - GRISLEE, a remotely controllable, modular leak-detection, imaging and repair robot system for the real-time in-situ inspection and repair of live distribution gas mains.
• Gladiator - The NREC-led team designed, developed and field tested and successfully demonstrated a Gladiator robotic system with high mobility and remote combat capabilities.
• Learning Applied to Ground Robots Platform - NREC designed, built and delivered 12 turnkey robots in seven months to support the LAGR Program kick-off meeting.
• M2000: A Semi-Autonomous System for High-Speed Paint Removal - Automated paint removal system for large ships
• Medical Image Registration - We use planar X-ray images to estimate the position and orientation of patient anatomy with respect to an external coordinate frame.
• Motion Free Scanning Radar - We incorporate the current state of the art in non-mechanical scanning antenna technology with advanced millimeter-wave ranging technology to enable a small, reliable, and affordable imaging-radar sensor with no moving parts. Sensors will be demonstrated on the sponsor's equipment in typical operating scenarios and environments.
• PerceptOR (NREC) - We have developed a novel semi-autonomous unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) that includes a dedicated unmanned air vehicle - a "Flying Eye" - that flies ahead of the UGV to detect hazards before the onboard UGV sensors would.
• Pioneer - Robots for Chornobyl Stabilization
• Sweep Monitoring - NREC developed the Sweep Monitoring System (SMS) for training soldiers and demining personnel to use hand-held land mine detectors.
• UGCV PerceptOR Integrated - The UPI (UGCV PerceptOR Integrated) program integrates and enhances the results from UGCV and PerceptOR to increase the speed and autonomy of unmanned ground vehicles operating in complex terrain. By combining the inherent mobility of Spinner with advanced perception techniques including the use of learning and prior terrain data, the UPI program stresses system design across vehicle, sensors and software so that the strengths of one component compensate for the weaknesses of another.
• UPI Teleoperation System - NREC is developing an immersive teleoperation system as part of the UGCV-PerceptOR Integration program.
• Underground Mining Operator Assist - Automating the functions of a continuous mining machine and roof bolting units.
• Unmanned Ground Combat Vehicle (UGCV) - We are leading a team to develop a next-generation unmanned ground combat vehicle.
• Vehicle Safeguarding - The NREC designed, developed and tested a fully autonomous system capable of following pre-taught paths while detecting and avoiding obstacles.
• Vehicle Stability Prediction - NREC pioneered an easy-to-implement solution to a serious but frequently overlooked problem — stability margin estimation as it relates to vehicular rollover and tipover vulnerabilities.
• Very Rough Terrain Nonholonomic Trajectory Generation and Motion Planning for Rovers - We are developing rough terrain trajectory generation algorithms for local path planning and optimal regional motion planning methods using a constrained search space.