Unstructured Facility Navigation by Applying the NIST 4D/RCS Architecture

Abstract

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Intelligent Systems Division (ISD) is working with the material handling industry, specifically on automated guided vehicles, to develop next generation vehicles. ISD is also a participant in the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) Learning Applied to Ground Robots (LAGR) Project embedding learning algorithms into the modules that make up the Four Dimensional/Real- Time Control System (4D/RCS). 4D/RCS is the standard reference model architecture which ISD has applied to control many intelligent systems. Technology from LAGR is being transferred to the material handling industry through the NIST Industrial Autonomous Vehicles Project. This paper describes the 4D/RCS structure and control applied to LAGR and the transfer of this technology through a demonstration to the automated guided vehicles industry.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA515633

Entities

People

  • Michael Shneier
  • Roger Bostelman
  • Tommy Chang
  • Tsai Hong
  • William Shackleford

Organizations

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Automated Guided Vehicles
  • Autonomous Vehicles
  • Cameras
  • Computer Stereo Vision
  • Control Systems
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Demonstrations
  • Detection
  • Inertial Measurement Units
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Information Systems
  • Navigation
  • Standards
  • Two Dimensional
  • Unmanned Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
  • Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

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