A Systems Engineering Approach to Electro-Mechanical Reconfiguration for Mobility Autonomy

Abstract

The performance of a system is a function of the performance of each of its individual components. This work explores the relationship between system performance and subcomponent performance in the electro-mechanical configuration of a mobile robot under the premise that the performance of the mobile robot can be greatly improved through the systematic analysis and design of an efficient electro-mechanical configuration. This work further presumes that the concept of mobility adequately encompasses the metrics by which complete mobile robotic systems may be measured; the purpose of building a mobile robot is assumed to be the creation of a maximally mobile autonomous machine. The performance cost of converting an existing machine into an autonomous machine is then measured by its mobility degradation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 15, 1994
Accession Number
ADA289479

Entities

People

  • R. C. Coulter

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Autonomous Systems
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Computer Vision
  • Control Systems
  • Energy
  • Energy Transfer
  • Engineers
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Transfer
  • Motion Planning
  • Navigation
  • Power Supplies
  • Systems Engineering
  • Thermodynamics
  • Uninterruptible Power Supplies
  • Unmanned Systems

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • Autonomy