Current Projects

Learning Applied to Ground Robots LAGR is a DARPA project to develop autonomous offroad navigation, using techniques based on realtime vision and learning.

Past Projects

	Karto Development The KartoTM SDK leverages three decades of leading edge research by SRI International to provide high accuracy navigation, mapping, and exploration functionality across a broad range of mobile robot platforms.
	Leaving Flatland: Fast Autonomous Navigation For UGVs in Challenging Terrain We envision a new research program on autonomous modeling and navigation, with the goal of enabling small unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) to move alongside their human counterparts through virtually any environment. Such UGVs will operate indoor and outdoor, with no distinction, and at a speed compatible with human motion. This is a joint project with Stanford University and Boston Dynamics.
	Player development This project supports development and maintenance of Player, an Open Source hardware abstraction layer for robotic devices.
	Self-organizing mobile ad hoc networks We address the problem of controlling large numbers of small mobile robots that form a multi-hop ad hoc communication network. We employ learning, optimization, and distributed coordination techniques to enable the robots to self-organize in order to maximize network performance.

Publications

The following are in reverse chronological order of publication.
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• Radu Bogdan Rusu and Alexis Maldonado and Michael Beetz and Brian P. Gerkey. Extending Player/Stage/Gazebo towards Cognitive Robots Acting in Ubiquitous Sensor-equipped Environments, in Proc. of the ICRA Workshop on Network Robot Systems, Rome, Italy, Apr 2007.  [PDF, Details]

• Davide Brugali and Gregory S. Broten and Antonio Cisternino and Diego Colombo and Jannik Fritsch and Brian P. Gerkey and Gerhard Kraetzschmar and Richard Vaughan and Hans Utz. Trends in Robotic Software Frameworksin Software Engineering for Experimental Robotics, Springer, Apr 2007.  [Details]

• Richard T. Vaughan and Brian Gerkey. Reusable Robot Software and the Player/Stage Projectin Software Engineering for Experimental Robotics, Springer, Apr 2007.  [Details]

• Kurt Konolige and Motilal Agrawal and Robert C. Bolles and Cregg Cowan and Martin Fischler and Brian P. Gerkey. Outdoor Mapping and Navigation using Stereo Vision, in Proc. of the Intl. Symp. on Experimental Robotics (ISER), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jul 2006.  [PDF, Details]

• Brian P. Gerkey and Roger Mailler and Benoit Morisset. Commbots: Distributed control of mobile communication relays, in Proc. of the AAAI Workshop on Auction Mechanisms for Robot Coordination (AuctionBots), Boston, Massachusetts, pp. 51-57, Jul 2006.  [PDF, Details]