Logistic constraints and difficulties, as well as risks and economical impact of the bathymetric measurement activity, especially in shallow water, are known matters. This activity, in fact, normally implies the presence of human conductors and operators aboard motorized craft that often have to be transported in difficult to reach places or, even worse, have to operate in sites which are dange...

In recent years, much progress has been made in outdoor autonomous navigation. However, safe navigation is still a daunting challenge in terrain containing vegetation. In this paper, we focus on the segmentation of ladar data into three classes using local three-dimensional point cloud statistics. The classes are: ”scatter” to represent porous volumes such as grass and tree canopy, ”linear” to ...

We are developing a novel framework, PRIDE (PRediction In Dynamic Environments), to perform moving object prediction (MOP) to assist unmanned ground vehicles in performing path planning within dynamic environments. In addition to predicting the location of moving objects in the environment, we have extended PRIDE to generate simulated traffic during on-road driving. In this paper, we explore ap...

In the article considers possibility of implementing an autonomous mode in navigation complex a small-sized tactical unmanned aerial vehicle, including strapdown inertial system and onboard vision system. Due to fact that accuracy such systems significantly depends on changes background-target environment equipment failures, it is proposed organize automatic adaptation external conditions inter...