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ISC Publications

Publisher

IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics

Authors (10)

Edward W. Tunstel Jr.
Robert J. Bamberger Jr.
Colin J. Taylor
Jessica M. Hatch
Ryan J. Murphy
Matthew P. Para
Kapil D. Katyal
Matthew S. Johannes
Kevin C. Wolfe
Joseph L. Moore
ISC Publications

2016

Nested Marsupial Robotic System for Search and Sampling in Increasingly Constrained Environments

Abstract

This paper presents a nested marsupial robotic system and its execution of a notional disaster response task. Human supervised autonomy is facilitated by tightly-coupled, high-level user feedback enabling command and control of a bimanual mobile manipulator carrying a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle that carries a miniature ground robot. Each robot performs a portion of a mock hazardous chemical spill investigation and sampling task within a shipping container. This work offers an example application for a heterogeneous team of robots that could directly support first responder activities using complementary capabilities of autonomous dexterous manipulation and mobility, autonomous planning and control, and teleoperation. The task was successfully executed during multiple live trials at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Technology Expo in June 2015. A key contribution of the work is the application of a unified algorithmic approach to autonomous planning, control, and estimation supporting vision-based manipulation and non-GPS-based ground and aerial mobility, thus reducing algorithmic complexity across this capability set. The unified algorithmic approach is described along with the robot capabilities, hardware implementations, and human interface, followed by discussion of live demonstration execution and results.

Citation

@inproceedingsMoore_2016 doi: 10.1109/smc.2016.7844578 url: https://doi.org/10.1109/smc.2016.7844578 year: 2016 month: oct publisher: IEEE author: Moore Joseph and Wolfe Kevin C. and Johannes Matthew S. and Katyal Kapil D. and Para Matthew P. and Murphy Ryan J. and Hatch Jessica and Taylor Colin J. and Bamberger Robert J. and Tunstel Edward title: Nested marsupial robotic system for search and sampling in increasingly constrained environments booktitle: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics (SMC)

Citation

@inproceedingsMoore_2016 doi: 10.1109/smc.2016.7844578 url: https://doi.org/10.1109/smc.2016.7844578 year: 2016 month: oct publisher: IEEE author: Moore Joseph and Wolfe Kevin C. and Johannes Matthew S. and Katyal Kapil D. and Para Matthew P. and Murphy Ryan J. and Hatch Jessica and Taylor Colin J. and Bamberger Robert J. and Tunstel Edward title: Nested marsupial robotic system for search and sampling in increasingly constrained environments booktitle: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics (SMC)