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• 3D Mine Mapping - We are developing robotic systems for automated 3D mine mapping.
• Amaranth - Real-Time System for Adaptive Optimization of End-to-End Quality of Service
• Autonomous Ground Vehicle Design - Pursuing high speed navigation of unrehearsed terrain in pursuit of the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge
• Autonomous Navigation System - The NREC is leading the development of perception and path planning within the Autonomous Navigation System program for the Future Combat System.
• Crusher - NREC designed and developed the Crusher vehicle to support the UPI program's rigorous field experimentation schedule.
• Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robot - Very Low Cost - We are deveopling a suite of highly capable mobile robots for Explosive Ordnance Disposal and First Responders which are very low in total ownership costs.
• Footstep Planning for Biped Robots - Navigation strategies for bipeds through complex environments, planning for the full capabilities of the biped.
• 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.
• Inter-Process Communication Package - We are developing a high-level support package for connecting and sending data among processes using TCP / IP sockets.
• 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.
• Legless Locomotion - A novel locomotion technique for legged robots when their legs don't touch the ground!
• M2000: A Semi-Autonomous System for High-Speed Paint Removal - Automated paint removal system for large ships
• Mars Autonomy - Long-distance marsrover navigation with minimal human intervention.
• Navigation Among Movable Obstacles - Autonomous motion planning and control for robots working in reconfigurable environments.
• Needle Steering for Brain Surgery - We are developing high accuracy proportional steering of flexible needles for minimally invasive navigation in the brain.
• 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.
• Robotic Soccer - The RoboSoccer project develops collaboration among multiple autonomous agents.
• Telepresence Robot Kit - To design, create, and disseminate robotics curricula and technologies that motivate young women and men to actively explore science and technology.
• Time-optimal Vehicle Trajectories - What's the fastest way to drive a mobile robot?
• Toy Robots Initiative - The Toy Robots Initiative aims to commercialize robotics technologies in the educational, toy and entertainment fields.
• 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.