Autonomy in Rough Terrain
Researchers have worked for years toward making mobile robots move by themselves and take their own decisions. Thanks to the efforts of a large research community and the evolution of technology, fully autonomous robots are today ready for applications in structured environments. However, their level of autonomy is still limited and the environments in which they are deployed are often engineered in order to guarantee reliability. Most successful applications are limited to indoor, office and industrial environments.
Outdoors, the operation of mobile robots is more complex, and a lot of effort has been deployed recently toward enabling a greater level of autonomy for outdoor vehicles. Such robots find their application in scientific exploration of hostile environments like deserts, volcanoes, the Antarctic, or other planets. There is also a high level of interest in such robots for search and rescue operations after natural or industrial disasters
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Lamon, P. (2008). Introduction. In: 3D-Position Tracking and Control for All-Terrain Robots. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 43. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78287-2_1
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