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Past projects, Chuck Thorpe

• Ambler - We are developing the Ambler, a six-legged walking robot that addresses the challenges of exploring rugged terrains, acquiring samples, and avoiding dangerous situations.
• CTA Robotics - This project adresses the problems of scene interpretation and path planning for mobile robot navigation in natural environment.
• Distributed Architecture for Mobile Navigation - The Distributed Architecture for Mobile Navigation (DAMN) is a behavior-based architecture similar in spirit to the Subsumption Architecture.
• Grid based Approach for Navigation by Evidence Storage and Histogram Analysis - Grid based navigation
• No Hands Across America! - Vehicle drives across the United States
• Position Estimation - We estimate the position of a robot based on the position of natural landmarks in images.
• Rapidly Adapting Lateral Position Handler - adaptive steering
• Run-Off-Road - The Run Off Road Collision Countermeasures program assists drivers by monitoring the vehicle's position in the lane while a person drives.
• Sensor Friendly Highways
• Side Collision Warning System for Transit Buses - To develop a warning system which helps a driver of a transit bus to avoid side collisions with pedestrians, other vehicles, or stationary objects.
• Simulated Highways for Intelligent Vehicle Algorithms - SHIVA is a microsimulation of a highway environment, designed specifically for testing intelligent vehicle tactical algorithms.
• Simultaneous Localization and Mapping with Detection, Tracking, and Classification of Moving Objects - We are developing the algorithms to solve Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) and Detection, Tracking and Classification of Moving Objects (DTCMO) problems for both indoor and outdoor applications.
• Supervised TeleRobotics using Incremental Polyhedral-Earth geometry - Teleoperating vehicles over low bandwidth links.
• Tactical Mobile Robotics - As part of the DARPA Tactial Mobile Robotics program, we are developing techniques for semi-autonomous navigation of a small robot in urban environments.
• Transit Bus Collision Warning Systems - Research and integration of side and front collision warning systems for transit buses.
• Unmanned Ground Vehicles - Developing autonomous navigation capabilities for mobile robots driving in complex, unstructured outdoor terrain.