The seeing car VaMoRs-P is the next step of development in computer vision for
autonomous road vehicle guidance at the'Universitat der Bundeswehr Munich'(UBM). As …

A description is given of an obstacle avoidance perception sensing system developed for
use on Martin Marietta's autonomous land vehicle. The focus is on range-image-based …

Wheeled Mobile robots (WMRs) are very popular because they are appropriate for
applications with relatively low mechanical complexity and energy consumption. WMRs are …

A fault-tolerant architecture for an automatic navigation system is presented. The system
employs a mixed type of architecture in which the speed advantages of both pipelined and …

A navigation system for automatic vision-guided vehicles which uses an efficient double
heuristic search algorithm for path planning is presented. It is capable of avoiding unknown …

Current work on the autonomous land vehicle (ALV) is summarized, and its application to
the mining industry is described. Since mining vehicles are mobile and operate in an …

This paper describes off-road perception techniques developed for the Autonomous Land
Vehicle (ALV). Processing is performed on a parallel processor, the Warp Machine, a 100 …

An intelligent robotic system must possess the capabilities to sense the environment,
perceive the environment, reason on the environment and then act based upon the …

Starting a few decades ago, the unmanned wheeled vehicle research has drawn lately more
attention, especially for off-road environment. As the demand to use electric vehicles …

Flexible and capable autonomous navigation for military missions requires hybrid road and
offroad navigation. A vehicle may travel cross country where roads are not available, too …