Many modern approaches to autonomy use a layered planning technique where a conventional path planner plans a nominal desired path, and a reactive planner plans trajectories over a local region. In relatively structured environments with good localization, this layered approach has been proven to… More

ABSTRACT: This research focuses on providing a capability to perform rapid, semi-autonomous unmanned assessment of potential combat airstrips. Current Tactics Techniques and Procedures require the operator to walk the runway and manually assess viability. Soil hardness measurements are sampled… More