Microelectronics

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Portable Highly Mobile Autonomous Robot with
Precision Navigation
Dr. Ka C. Cheok, Edzko Smid, Jerry Atkinson

• Portable Mobile Robot
• Rugged, lightweight
• JAUS compatible
• PackBot by iRobot
• Collaboration with iRobot
• Precision Local Positioning System
• Ultra wideband radio frequency
• /-10 cm, 60 Hz update
• Sapphire PALS by MSSI
• Collaboration with MSSI
• Self-Navigation Applications
• Mine detection robot
• Bio/chem/explosive sniffing dog
• Delivery robots or mules
• Other commercial market

• Sponsors
• DoD/OSD/DARPA - Joint Robotics Program
• Automation Alley
• US Army TARDEC
• Collaborations
• JADI, Inc (Dr Smid, Atkinson)
• OU
• iRobot (McCormick), MSSI (Dr Fontana)
• RD Efforts
• Integration of subsystems
• Robustness of operation
• Man-machine interface
• JAUS compatibility
• Intelligent perception
• Machine learning