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• Bow Leg Hopper - A novel, single-leg, dynamically stabilized planar robot that efficiently traverses rugged terrains under computer control.
• Formal Verification of Autonomous Systems - We are developing tools and techniques to support formal verification of autonomous systems.
• Google Lunar X Prize - We are part of a $30 million international competition to safely land a robot on the surface of the Moon, travel 500 meters over the lunar surface, and send images and data back to the Earth.
• Inter-Process Communication Package - We are developing a high-level support package for connecting and sending data among processes using TCP / IP sockets.
• Life in the Atacama - Robotic field investigation will bring new scientific understanding of the Atacama as a habitat for life with distinct analogies to Mars.
• Lunar Ice Discovery Initiative - Icebreaker is a proposed mission to explore the south pole of the Moon.
• Mars Autonomy - Long-distance marsrover navigation with minimal human intervention.
• 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.
• Reliability of Mobile Robot Teams - We are developing analytical methods for predicting mission failure probabilities for mobile robot teams given mission specifications and component reliability data.
• 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.