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[Project image] Vehicle Safeguarding
Head: Anthony (Tony) Stentz
Contact: Anthony (Tony) Stentz (tony+@cmu.edu)

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

Associated center: NREC

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This page last updated - June 2006.
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Project Description

The NREC designed, developed and tested a fully autonomous system capable of following pre-taught paths while detecting and avoiding obstacles.

Having a system capable of detecting obstacles and terrain hazards would significantly increase the safety of both manned and unmanned agricultural vehicles. This project focuses on perception to provide machine awareness of environment as an element for safeguarding agricultural vehicles. Our approach is to use modern machine learning techniques and sensor fusion for building a robust obstacle detection system that can be adapted easily to different environments and operating conditions.

Personnel

Name Title Email Address
Cristian Dima NREC Commercialization Specialist csd@cmu.edu
Anthony's personal homepage Anthony (Tony) Stentz Research Professor/Assoc Dir NREC tony+@cmu.edu
Carlos Vallespi-Gonzalez Senior Research Engineer cvalles@cs.cmu.edu
Nicolas's personal homepage Nicolas Vandapel Project Scientist vandapel@ri.cmu.edu
Carl's personal homepage Carl Wellington NREC Commercialization Specialist carl@wellington.name

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