An Integrated Assessment of Progress in Robotic Perception and Semantic Navigation

Abstract

The US Army Research Laboratory's Robotics Collaborative Technology Alliance (RCTA) is a program intended to change robots from tools that Soldiers use into teammates with which Soldiers can work. This requires the integration of fundamental and applied research in perception, artificial intelligence, and human-robot interaction. In October 2014, the RCTA assessed progress toward integrating this research. This assessment was designed to evaluate the robot's performance when it used new capabilities to perform selected aspects of a mission. The assessed capabilities included the ability of the robot to navigate semantically outdoors with respect to structures and landmarks, identify doors in the facades of buildings, and identify and track persons emerging from those doors. This report presents assessment results of each of these capabilities, evaluated separately but as a component of an integrated system.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2015
Accession Number
ADA621666

Entities

People

  • Arne Suppe
  • Barry Bodt
  • Chip Diberardino
  • Craig Lennon
  • Jean Oh
  • Luis Navarro-serment
  • Marshal Childers
  • Menglong Zhu
  • Robert N. Dean
  • Terrence Keegan

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Integrated Systems
  • Laser Sensors
  • Machine Learning
  • Military Research
  • Navigation
  • Operating Systems
  • Perception
  • Robotics
  • Robots
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional
  • Unmanned Systems

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

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