FedEx Institute of Technology/Center for Advanced Robotics
People
- Brian L. Stuart, Chief Engineer/Principal, FedEx Services
- Stan Franklin
- Khan Iftekharuddin
- Lee McCauley
- Andrew Olney
- Teong Tan
Wiki
We have a wiki for communal updates and information
exchange.
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Equipment
At the present time we are developing on two robotics platforms.
For pictures of them:
Documents
Software
Presentations
Background
Proposals
We are making these proposals available for reference purposes
only.
They are presented as submitted, but do not reflect the actual
funding which has been awarded.
- 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
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)