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Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robot - Very Low Cost (EODR-VLC) Head: Gregg Podnar Contact: Gregg Podnar (gwp@cmu.edu) Mailing address: Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Associated lab/group: Tele-Supervised Autonomous Robotics For more information, see this project's homepage.

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Project Description

The focus of this program is to provide a suite of highly capable mobile robots for Explosive Ordnance Disposal and First Responders which are very low in total ownership costs: in dollars, in maintenance time, and in deployment and recovery time.

Agile mobile bases, complete with arms and remote perception will support effective telepresence to allow human beings to stay out of harms way.

We follow a philosophy of semi-expendability, that is: reusable, but of minimal operational impact if damaged or destroyed because the low cost allows ownership of redundant units. A reasonable degree of survivability, and maximum interchangeability of components and subsystems allows field repairs and reuse of residual working parts.

Low cost is achieved through effective design and by employing inexpensive materials and processes.

For videos and more information, see the official "Yoder" website.

Personnel

	Name	Title	Email Address
	H. Benjamin Brown	Project Scientist	hbb@cs.cmu.edu
	Gregg Podnar	Program Manager	gwp@cmu.edu

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.

• Multi-Level Autonomy Robot Telesupervision
  G. Podnar, J. Dolan, A. Elfes, and M. Bergerman
  Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '08), May, 2008. [Abstract]
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