Robot Vehicles: A Survey and Proposed Test-Bed Facility,
Abstract
Many groups are now attempting to build autonomous land robots. However, no vehicle fitting this description exists today. The difficult problems that must be solved are obstacle avoidance and scene matching to map coordinates. Autonomous robot vehicles would be used primarily by the military for reconnaissance. Enemy targets would either be designated by laser spotting or their locations and identities transmitted to friendly forces. Westinghouse as a subcontractor to the Computer Vision Lab of the University of Maryland, with the support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Army Night Vision and Electro-Optics Laboratory, is developing a test-bed facility for investigating autonomous vehicle navigation. A Westinghouse vision system will be added to an existing electronically controllable Army Vehicle. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1983
- Accession Number
- ADP001204
Entities
People
- Bruce J. Schachter
- George R. Jones
- Glenn E. Tisdale