Experiences in Deploying Test Arenas for Autonomous Mobile Robots

Abstract

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has created a set of reference test arenas for evaluating the performance of mobile autonomous robots performing urban search and rescue tasks. The arenas are intended to help accelerate the robotic research community's advancement of mobile robot capabilities. The arenas have been deployed in two competitions thus far and are also being used by researchers to test their systems' capabilities. We describe the arenas, their use in competitions and our near-term and long-term plans for the arenas.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA516278

Entities

People

  • Adam Jacoff
  • Elena Messina
  • John Evans

Organizations

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Autonomous Navigation
  • Autonomy
  • Collapse
  • Competition
  • Detectors
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Intelligent Systems
  • Materials
  • Perception
  • Robot Navigation
  • Robots
  • Search And Rescue
  • Sensor Fusion
  • Standards

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.

Technology Areas

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