I n t e l l i g e n t T r a n s p o r t a t i o n S y s t e m s accelerate research and development activities in autonomous ground vehicles, increase collaboration among different organizations and interest groups, and draw widespread attention to the technological issues and benefits of developing completely autonomous off-road ground vehicles. At Ohio State University, we have extensive expe...

The Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Laboratory (AUV Lab) at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is currently building and testing a new, general purpose and inexpensive 6000 meter capable Hovering Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (HAUV), the ‘ODYSSEY IV class’. The vehicle is intended for rapid deployments, potentially with minimal navigation, thus supporting episodic dives for explorato...

Practical aspects of motion generation and control for parking a nonholonomic autonomous vehicle are considered. An iterative algorithm for the parallel parking maneuver is proposed. It is based on ultra-sonic range data processing. To control the steering angle and longitudinal velocity of the vehicle during the parking maneuver, sinusoidal reference functions are used. To prevent collisions, ...

A low-cost unmanned ground vehicle designed to benchmark high-speed performance is presented. The E-Maxx four-wheel-drive radio-controlled vehicle equipped with a Robostix controller is proposed as a low-cost, high-speed robotic platform useful for military operations. The vehicle weighs less than ten kilograms making it easily portable by one person. Keeping cost low is a major consideration i...

Autonomous ground vehicle navigation requires the integration of many technologies such as path planning, position and orientation sensing, vehicle control, and obstacle avoidance. The work presented here focuses on the control of a non-holonomic ground vehicle as it tracks a given path. A new path tracking technique called ‘vector pursuit’ is presented. This new technique is based on the theor...

Occasionally an autonomous vehicle unfortunately recognizes that an unavoidable accident is going to happen; yet the autonomous vehicle still has a number of possible options of accidents and it is still able to choose what the least harmful option is. A system for a real-time assessment of vehicle accident potential damages is presented in this paper. This system improves the vehicle's embedde...

An Intelligent Mobile Sensing System (IMSS) has been developed for the automated inspection of radioactive and hazardous waste storage containers in warehouse facilities at Department of Energy (DOE) sites. Hundreds of thousands of hazardous, radioactive, and mixed waste drums are being stored at DOE sites throughout the country and the anticipated decommissioning of facilities will generate ma...

The Phoenix autonomous underwater collaboration with other scientists interested in either vehicle (AUV) is a robot for student research in robot or virtual world. Repeated validation of shallow-water sensing and control (Figure 1). Phoenix simulation extensions through real-world testing is neutrally buoyant at 387 pounds (176 kg) with a hull remains essential. Details are provided on process ...

There are concerns about the impact that global warming will have on our environment, and which will inevitably result in expanding deserts and rising water levels. While a lot of underwater vehicles are utilized, AUVs (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) were considered and chosen, as the most suitable tool for conduction survey concerning these global environmental pro...