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Learning Applied to Ground Robots Platform (LAGR) Head: Thomas Gordon Contact: Thomas Gordon (thgordon@rec.ri.cmu.edu) Mailing address: National Robotics Engineering Center 10 40th Street Pittsburgh, PA 15201 Associated center: NREC For more information, see this project's homepage.

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Project Description

DARPA needed to supply a standard, mobile robot platform to research teams performing on the Learning Applied to Ground Robots (LAGR) program. NREC designed, built and delivered 12 turnkey robots in seven months to support the LAGR kick-off meeting.

The LAGR robot includes all the necessary hardware, sensing and software for autonomous operation indoors or outdoors. Its well documented application program interface (API) and modular design allows for partial or total swap of the autonomy software modules with the owner’s software.

A developer-friendly design features long battery life, standard development environment, extensive data logging capabilities, and system simulator.

Today, NREC supports more than a dozen customers and 30 fielded robots. NREC provides remote technical support, spare parts supply and user training.

Personnel

	Name	Title	Email Address
	James M Ketterer	Technician III	jk5n@andrew.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.

• Boosting Structured Prediction for Imitation Learning
  N. Ratliff, D. Bradley, J. Bagnell, and J. Chestnutt
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007. [Abstract]
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