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[Project image] UGCV PerceptOR Integrated (UPI)
Heads: John Bares and Anthony (Tony) Stentz
Contact: Anthony (Tony) Stentz (tony+@cmu.edu)

Mailing address:
National Robotics Engineering Consortium
10 40th Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15201

Associated center: NREC

For more information, see this project's homepage.

This page last updated - September 2006.
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Project Description

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 and <../crusher/index.htm>Crusher 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.

Created as a Future Combat Systems (FCS) technology feed program, test results from the UPI program are advancing efforts on many other autonomous vehicle programs, including the Armed Reconnaissance Vehicle and the <../ans/index.htm>Autonomous Navigation System.

Personnel [Past Members]

Name Title Email Address
James's personal homepage James (Drew) Bagnell Research Scientist bagnell2@andrew.cmu.edu
John Bares Research Professor/Director of NREC bares@cs.cmu.edu
David's personal homepage David Bradley PhD Student, RI dmbradle@andrew.cmu.edu
Cristian Dima NREC Commercialization Specialist csd@cmu.edu
Colin Green PhD Student, RI cjgreen@andrew.cmu.edu
Thomas Howard PhD Student, RI thoward@andrew.cmu.edu
David Silver Graduate Student dsilver@andrew.cmu.edu
Boris's personal homepage Boris Sofman PhD Student, RI bsofman@andrew.cmu.edu
Anthony's personal homepage Anthony (Tony) Stentz Research Professor/Assoc Dir NREC tony+@cmu.edu
Carl's personal homepage Carl Wellington NREC Commercialization Specialist carl@wellington.name

Current Sub-projects [Past Sub-projects]

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.
 

Publications

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