TY - JOUR
T1 - Miniature robotic system for reconnaissance and surveillance
AU - Hougen, Dean F.
AU - Benjaafar, Saifallah
AU - Bonney, Jordan C.
AU - Budenske, John R.
AU - Dvorak, Mark
AU - Gini, Maria
AU - French, Howard
AU - Krantz, Donald G.
AU - Li, Perry Y.
AU - Malver, Fred
AU - Nelson, Brad
AU - Papanikolopoulos, Nikolaos
AU - Rybski, Paul E.
AU - Stoeter, Sascha A.
AU - Voyles, Richard
AU - et al, al
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - This paper presents a miniature robotic system ('scout') useful for reconnaissance and surveillance missions. A large number of scout robots are deployed and controlled by humans and/or larger 'ranger' robots. The specially designed and constructed scouts are extremely small (roughly 116cc volume) yet are readily deployable (by tossing or launching), have multiple mobility modes, have multiple sensing capabilities, can transmit and receive data and instructions, and have a limited capability for autonomous action. The rangers are significantly larger vehicles, based on a commercial-off-the-shelf platform, augmented with scout launchers, radios, and additional sensors. Together, the scouts and rangers form a hierarchical team capable of carrying our complex missions in a wide variety of environments.
AB - This paper presents a miniature robotic system ('scout') useful for reconnaissance and surveillance missions. A large number of scout robots are deployed and controlled by humans and/or larger 'ranger' robots. The specially designed and constructed scouts are extremely small (roughly 116cc volume) yet are readily deployable (by tossing or launching), have multiple mobility modes, have multiple sensing capabilities, can transmit and receive data and instructions, and have a limited capability for autonomous action. The rangers are significantly larger vehicles, based on a commercial-off-the-shelf platform, augmented with scout launchers, radios, and additional sensors. Together, the scouts and rangers form a hierarchical team capable of carrying our complex missions in a wide variety of environments.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:0033691968
SN - 1050-4729
VL - 1
SP - 501
EP - 507
JO - Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
JF - Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
T2 - ICRA 2000: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
Y2 - 24 April 2000 through 28 April 2000
ER -