Current 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.
	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

Centibots very large-scale robot teams This is a joint project with Stanford, University of Washington, and ActiveMedia Robotics, to design, implement and demonstrate a computational framework for the coordination of very large robot teams, consisting of at least 100 small, resource limited robots, on an indoor reconnaissance task.

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.

Software

	Karto Robotic SDK Karto SDK for robot on the move
	Small Vision System The Small Vision System (SVS) is an efficient software implementation of the SRI stereo algorithms, running on standard PC or Unix hardware. These algorithms are 3 to 4 times faster than similar algorithms, and have high-quality filtering to reject false stereo matches.

Publications

The following are in reverse chronological order of publication.
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• Agrawal, M. and Konolige, K. Rough Terrain Visual Odometry. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) , August 2007.  [PDF, Details]

• Konolige, K. and Agrawal, M. Frame-Frame Matching for Realtime Consistent Visual Mapping. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), April 2007.  [PDF, 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]

• Agrawal, M and Konolige, K and Iocchi, L. Real-time detection of independent motion using stereo, in Proceedings IEEE workshop on visual motion, 2005.  [PDF, Details]

• Centibots: Very large scale distributed robotic teams, 2004.  [PDF, Details]