CMU strategic computing vision project report : 1984 to 1985

This report describes work during the first year of CMU’s Strategic Computing Vision project. Our goal is to build an intelligent mobile robot capable of operating in the real world outdoors. We are approaching this problem by building experimental robot vehicles and software. Experiments in the first year have demonstrated vehicle guidance using sonar, stereo and monoscopic TV cameras, and a laser scanner. This report describes the technical contributions, our relationship with the OARPA Autonomous Land Vehicle project, our project history, the people who comprise our project, and a list of project publications over the last year.

[1]  D. Dowling,et al.  A functional vehicle for autonomous mobile robot research , 1984 .

[2]  Takeo Kanade,et al.  Progress in robot road-following , 1986, Proceedings. 1986 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

[3]  H. T. Kung,et al.  Warp as a machine for low-level vision , 1985, Proceedings. 1985 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

[4]  B. D. Lucas.  Generalized image matching by the method of differences , 1985 .

[5]  Bruce H. Krogh,et al.  Integrated path planning and dynamic steering control for autonomous vehicles , 1986, Proceedings. 1986 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

[6]  H. T. Kung,et al.  Global operations on the CMU Warp machine , 1985 .

[7]  Takeo Kanade,et al.  First Results in Robot Road-Following , 1985, IJCAI.

[8]  Hans P. Moravec,et al.  High resolution maps from wide angle sonar , 1985, Proceedings. 1985 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

[9]  Larry H. Matthies,et al.  Experiments and thoughts on visual navigation , 1985, Proceedings. 1985 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

[10]  Hans P. Moravec.  Obstacle avoidance and navigation in the real world by a seeing robot rover , 1980 .

[11]  Charles E. Thorpe,et al.  An architecture for autonomous vehicle navigation , 1985, Proceedings of the 1985 4th International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology.

[12]  Hans P. Moravec,et al.  The Stanford Cart and the CMU Rover , 1983, Proceedings of the IEEE.

[13]  Charles E. Thorpe,et al.  Path Relaxation: Path Planning for a Mobile Robot , 1984, AAAI.

[14]  Anthony Stentz,et al.  Module Programmer's Guide to Local Map Builder for ALVan , 1986 .

[15]  John Ronald Kender,et al.  Shape from texture , 1981 .

[16]  Ronald Bert Ohlander,et al.  Analysis of natural scenes. , 1975 .

[17]  Takeo Kanade,et al.  Image Understanding Research at CMU , 1982 .

[18]  B. Krogh.  Guaranteed Steering Control , 1985, 1985 American Control Conference.