In this article, we physically demonstrate a reactive sensorimotor architecture for mobile robots whose behaviors are generated by motivation dynamics. Motivation dynamics uses continuous dynamical system to reactively compose low-level control vector fields using valuation functions that capture the potentially competing influences of external stimuli relative system's own internal state. We s...

A vision based navigation system is a basic tool to provide autonomous operations of unmanned vehicles. For o road navigation that means that the vehicle equipped with a stereo vision system and perhaps a laser ranging device shall be able to maintain a high level of autonomy under various illumination conditions and with little a priori information about the underlying scene. The task becomes ...

I: Introduction Steve Shafer and Red Whittaker Introduction Accomplishments Personnel Publications 11: NAVLAB: An Autonomous Navigation Testbed K. Dowling, R. Guzikowski, J. Ladd, H. Pangels, J. Singh, and W. Whittaker 111: Vision and Navigation for the Carnegie-Mellon NAVLAB C. Thorpe, M. Heberf, T. Kanade, and S. Shafer IV: The CMU System for Mobile Robot Navigation Y. Goto and A. Stentz 1