Highly Mobile Robotic Platforms for Semantic Scene Understanding
Abstract
APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASEAbstractHighly mobile robotic platforms open up new opportunities to explore how humans and autonomous sy,stems interact. Quadruped robots, recently available commercially, offer a middle ground of mobility between high cargo capacity, hi,gh endurance ground vehicles and fast, but very limited cargo and endurance aerial vehicles. By equipping a highly capable platform,with multiple types of sensors, including visual, thermal, and depth measurements, research into new ways of integrating human and r,obotic teammates can be conducted. In particular, we wish to investigate three main areas: semantic scene understanding, where senso,r responses are used to reason about the scene beyond basic items such as obstacle avoidance, humanaware coordination, where a robot,s advanced sensor information is used to guide human partners, and humanaware communication, where a robot sends or does not send in,formation based on the expected needs of its human partners. These platforms will enable a very wide range of robotics research at,the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral level, in concert with other robotics resources at UCSC.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 2022
- Source ID
- N000142212290
Entities
People
- Steve McGuire
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- University of California, Santa Cruz