Field Robot to Support Research on Long-Term Autonomous Navigation

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This research is concerned with visual navigation of mobile robots in outdoor, unstructured, three-dimensional environments for use in real-world applications such as environmental monitoring, planetary exploration, military reconnaissance, and mining. The applicants' current projects include path repetition using stereo vision, navigation using a combination of visual and celestial sensors, navigation using lidar intensity imagery to combat lighting change, automatic multisensor calibration, and iterative learning control. The common theme of these projects is to address long-term exploration of mobile robots in real-world environments. The requested equipment is comprised of a large field robot that is capable of long-term, long-distance operation in outdoor, rough terrain. This platform will help the applicants to make a major research impact and will contribute to Canada competing internationally in robotics.