People

• Brian L. Stuart, Chief Engineer/Principal, FedEx Services
• Stan Franklin
• Khan Iftekharuddin
• Lee McCauley
• Andrew Olney
• Teong Tan

Wiki

General Interest Mailing List

Equipment

• Toy electric vehicle
• Pioneer 3

Documents

Software

• FIT/CAR AGV Prototype Software Blueprint (PDF,82K) &mdash Basic outline of current software design and guidelines for software component development

Presentations

• Kick-off presentation (PDF,91K) &mdash Introductory plenary session presenting the origins of the center and two potential project areas for discussion
• Architecture Overview (PDF,134K) &mdash Plenary session presenting a proposed structure and organization for an autonomous vehicle project
• Relative Localization from Image Sequences (PDF,149K) &mdash Determining speed and orientation by observing ground texture

Background

• Stuart, B.L., Relative Localization from Image Sequences, Proceeding of the 43rd ACM Southeast Conference (PDF,119K) &mdash Using a camera as a "super" optical mouse to measure position and orientation

Proposals

• Franklin, S., LIDA-AV: Cognitive Robotics for Autonomous Vehicles (PDF,113K)
• Iftekharuddin, K.M., Robot Vision: A proposal for object characterization in autonomous tug project (PDF,40K)
• McCauley, L., Obstacle Handling in High-Speed Mobile Robots (PDF,32K)
• Olney, A., TugAV Human Interface (Plan B) (PDF,40K)

Misc

• Call for Participation (PDF,50K) &mdash A description of sub-project areas and a solicitation for proposals from groups wishing to take on sub-projects
• Center for Advanced Robotics Autonomous Vehicle Roadmap (PDF,22K) &mdash An early checklist of topics

Software

• Robot Simulator Package

  These three items are part of an open-source robot simulator system that we will be using as one of our development platforms.
  • Player &mdash Core simulator (TAR BZ2,1.4MB)
  • Stage &mdash 2-D simulator environment (TAR BZ2,435KB)
  • Gazebo &mdash 3-D simulator environment (TAR GZ,2.3MB)