Robot helicopter research at the University of Southern California began in 1991 with the formation of the Autonomous Flying Vehicle (AFV) Project and continues to the present day. During this time our lab has designed, built and conducted research with three robot helicopters. A brief project history and background is given, followed by a more detailed description of the current state and acco...

This paper documents the author’s work in a cognitive robotics seminar. The results include both the formulation of a competitive cognitive robotics game and the construction of an autonomous robot. The game is designed to encourage the development of cognitive robots research and technology through direct competition between teams. Designed to be the first robot capable of competing in a simpl...

The discussion of this paper is to develop an robotic model for hunting, tracking [7] and picking or collecting specific target-object with its autonomous capability. Autonomous Robot has been in use in multiple domains for example in surveillance, in battlefield [2], in remote locations where it is not impossible for human beings to reach. But most of the autonomous robot that exists today ten...

The Problem: The problem is to design an autonomous mobile robot that is self-assembling from independently mobile segments. We choose a design inspired by the constitution and motion of snakes or worms. In such a construction, the body of the robot is segmented and each segment can be designed as an autonomous entity, which is able to move and couple with other segments. Several of these segme...

This paper proposes a technique for planar trajectory following for an autonomous aerial robot. A trajectory is modeled as a planar spline. A behavior-based control system which stabilizes the robot and enforces trajectory following, has been implemented and tested on an autonomous helicopter. Results from two flight experiments are presented. The trajectory tracking error is on the order of th...

In this paper we examine the practical use of hardware neural networks in an autonomous mobile robot. We have developed a hardware neural system based around a custom VLSI chip, EPSILON III, designed specifically for embedded hardware neural applications. We present here a demonstration application of an autonomous mobile robot that highlights the flexibility of this system. This robot gains ba...

The aim of this paper is to give a short introduction to an autonomous robot system on the practice-oriented example of robot soccer as a test bed for the implementation of Multi Agent Systems. It is a great opportunity to work with robot soccer, because it is covering almost every parts of an autonomous system and gives an idea how such a system can be realized.

This paper proposes a technique for planar trajectory following for an autonomous aerial robot. A trajectory is modeled as a planar spline. A behavior-based control system which stabilizes the robot and enforces trajec-tory following, has been implemented and tested on an autonomous helicopter. Results from two ight experiments are presented. The trajectory tracking error is on the order of the...