Local navigation system in PANORAMA project

The PANORAMA Project aims to build a perception and navigation system architecture suitable and efficient for outdoor autonomous mobile robots. The project will demonstrate the capabilities of the system on well identified industrial applications such as forest vehicle for trunks transportation and drilling vehicle for mining exploitation. The system will be able to perform an autonomous navigation mission in an unstructured and partially known outdoor environment. A typical scenario is to run on several types of roads or tracks and move on cross country terrain in a round trip simulating an industrial working mission. The system will have several maps describing the road network and local working areas, some a priori knowledge of the environment including beacons and landmarks, weather, outer conditions and inner characteristics of the vehicule and its sensors.