Autonomous excavator systems can alleviate the issues caused by the shortage of skilled labor forces and increasing labor costs. For autonomous excavation, real-time landscape estimation, excavation path generation, control, and precise landscape inspection are all essential. In this article, we propose and experimentally validate an integrated autonomous excavator system … [Read more...] about Towards Fully Integrated Autonomous Excavation: Autonomous Excavator for Precise Earth Cutting and Onboard Landscape Inspection
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Enhancing Campus Mobility: Achievements and Challenges of the Snow Lion Autonomous Shuttle
In recent years, the rapid evolution of autonomous vehicles (AVs) has reshaped global transportation systems, leading to an increase in autonomous shuttle applications in people’s daily lives. Leveraging the accomplishments of our earlier endeavor, particularly Hercules (Liu et al., 2021), an autonomous logistics vehicle for transporting goods, we introduce Snow Lion, an … [Read more...] about Enhancing Campus Mobility: Achievements and Challenges of the Snow Lion Autonomous Shuttle
Toward the Deployment of an Autonomous Last-Mile Delivery Robot in Urban Areas: The Ona Prototype Platform
Nowadays, the skyrocketing last-mile freight transportation in urban areas is leading to very negative effects (e.g., pollution, noise, or traffic congestion), which could be minimized by using autonomous electric vehicles. In this sense, this article presents the first prototype of Ona, an autonomous last-mile delivery robot that, in contrast to existing platforms, has a … [Read more...] about Toward the Deployment of an Autonomous Last-Mile Delivery Robot in Urban Areas: The Ona Prototype Platform
Suitability of Various Lidar and Radar Sensors for Application in Robotics
Lidar and radar sensors are widely used to obtain depth information for various applications in the field of robotics, such as navigation [1] , collision avoidance [2] , surveillance [3] , and map generation [4] . These two sensors are becoming increasingly popular as perception systems for autonomous mobile robots. However, as a result of their versatility and popularity, … [Read more...] about Suitability of Various Lidar and Radar Sensors for Application in Robotics
