Advanced Sensor Systems for Autonomous Navigation

ASSAN - 5610

Keywords mobile robots, autonomous robots, navigation, sensors, civil engineering, landfills

Start Date: 21-FEB-91 / Duration: 10 months

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Objectives

The objective of ASSAN was to identify the specific requirements and future development strategies required for robotic vehicles in civil engineering work. In particular, it looked at an application area which entails condition of risk for an operator, using semi-autonomous, remotely controlled vehicles operating in an unstructured, dynamically changing environment. A sanitary land-fill site is a typical example of such an environment.

The specific tasks to be undertaken included:

• defining all common control/perception strategies in the area of application, including an assessment of the potential market and possible technological impact of the proposed work
• defining the general system architecture (including task decomposition, world modelling and sensory processing)
• establishing vehicle on-board and off-board control functions and interface requirements
• outlining strategies for environmental modelling, risk detection and vehicle localisation.

A workshop has been held on "mobile robotics for civil engineering works".

CONTACT POINT

Mr L. Borriello
TECNOPOLIS CSATA NOVUS ORTUS
Km. 3 Strada Prov. Casamassima
I - 70010 VALENZANO (BA)
tel: + 39/ 80-877 0344
fax: + 39/ 80-651 868
telex: 810371 TECPOL I

Participants

TECNOPOLIS CSATA NOVUS ORTUS - I - C
CALABRESE ENGINEERING SPA - I - P
UNIVERSITA DI GENOVA - I - P
ROBOSOFT SA - F - P
ZENON SA - GR - P
SINCON SPA - I - P
ISRA SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH - D - P
TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE DARMSTADT - D - P
CRIF/WTCM INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION - B - P

ASSAN - 5610, December 1993

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