When robot researchers talk about robot middle ware, inevitably Player will enter the
discussion. This piece of software and its related tools have become one of the most popular …

Rescue robots are expected to carry out reconnaissance and dexterity operations in
unknown environments comprising unstructured obstacles. Although a wide variety of …

The TerraMax vehicle is based on Oshkosh Truck's Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement
truck platform and was one of the five vehicles able to successfully reach the finish line of the …

Featured Application This work aims to review the use of ROS2 as middleware to integrate
heterogeneous hardware and software components in order to enable fixed-base robots to …

Urban Search and Rescue Simulation (USARSim) is an open source package that provides
a high-resolution, physics based simulation of robotic platforms. The package provides …

Abstract The Reconnaissance and Autonomy for Small Robots (RASR) team developed a
system for the coordination of groups of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) that can execute …

Abstract Robotic Development Environments (RDEs) have come to play an increasingly
important role in robotics research in general, and for the development of architectures for …

This article describes the robot Stanley, which won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge.
Stanley was developed for high‐speed desert driving without manual intervention. The …

We present the most recent version of our RoboCube system, a special robot controller hand-
tailored for players in the small robots league. The RoboCube is conceptualized to …

The 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant highlighted the promise
and shortcomings of robots. Had robots been able to quickly enter the plant and vent …