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Autonomous Cargo Trailer Transport System (ACT) This project is no longer active. Head: Hagen Schempf Contact: Hagen Schempf (hagen@rec.ri.cmu.edu (Currently On Leave)) Mailing address: Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Associated centers: VASC and FRC For more information, see this project's homepage.

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Project Description

The Field Robotics Center (FRC) and the Vision and Autonomous Systems Center (VASC) performed an engineering design study for the US Postal Service (USPS) in 1992, in order to develop an automated system for handling mail trailers at the USPS's bulk mail centers (BMC). The goal was to devise an automated method, to improve on the current method which uses human-driven spotter-tractors to move hundreds of these mail trailers within a BMC. The study concluded that the best and most economically feasible approach was to automate the existing spotters and to develop a multi-vehicle operational scenario using novel mechanical approaches, planning/control software, and a new radio-based navigation system to move and dock trailers within the facility.

Publications

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Autonomous Cargo Transport System
  K. Fitzpatrick, M. Hebert, D. Pomerleau, and H. Schempf
  Proceedings of the United States Postal Service 5th Advanced Technology Conference, December, 1992.