Armored vehicle crewmen, particularly drivers, have always been challenged by limited visibility. Vision blocks provide narrow and restricted views of the outside world and can severely impair driver performance, especially when operating at higher speeds and in complex urban environments. Drivers… More

We propose a rapid mapping and 3-D visualization system especially suited for tunnels, urban"canyons", inside buildings and other environments where GPS may be poor or not available. The system includes mobile Sensor Nodes (mobile robots in our Phase I) that wirelessly supply compressed… More

Although global pose is essential for success in certain vehicle missions and tasks, when GPS is denied there is no single technology (source) that can robustly estimate global pose without suffering from one or more failure modes. We propose to design an architecture that provides robustness by… More