AQUA: An amphibious autonomous robot

Computer

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 46-53

  Dudek, Gregory ^a   Giguere, Philippe ^a   Prahacs, Chris ^a   Saunderson, Shane ^a   Sattar, Junaed ^a   Torres Mendez, Luz Abril ^a   Jenkin, Michael ^b   German, Andrew ^b   Hogue, Andrew ^b   Ripsman, Arlene ^b   Zacher, James ^b   Milios, Evangelos ^c   Liu, Hui ^c   Zhang, Pifu ^c   Buehler, Martin ^d   Georgiades, Christina ^e  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d Boston Dynamics   (United States)

^e Math Works ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AQUA; Autonomous robot development; Robotics; SASR tasks

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847608821     PISSN: 00189162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MC.2007.6     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. C. Prahacs et al., "Towards Legged Amphibious Mobile Robotics," J. Eng. Design and Innovation (online), vol. 1, part. 01P3, 2005 www.cden.ca/JEDI/index.html.
2. M. Théberge and G. Dudek, "Gone Swimmin'," IEEE Spectrum, June 2006, pp. 38-43.
3. R. Altendorfer et al., "RHex: A Biologically Inspired Hexapod Runner," Autonomous Robots, vol. 11, no. 3, 2001, pp. 207-213.
4. U. Saranli, M. Buehler, and D. E. Koditschek, "RHex: A Simple and Highly Mobile Hexapod Robot," Int'l J. Robotics Research, vol. 20, no. 7, 2001, pp. 616-631.
5. R.J. Full and C.T. Farley, "Musculoskeletal Dynamics in Rhythmic Systems: A Comparative Approach to Legged Locomotion," Biomechanics and Neural Control of Posture and Movement, C. Winter, ed., Springer-Verlag, 2000, pp. 192-205.
6. G. Dudek, P. Giguere, and J. Sattar, "Sensor-Based Behavior Control for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, Proc. 10th Int'l Symp. Experimental Robotics, Springer-Verlag, 2006.
7. B. Singh, W.T. Freeman, and D. Brainard, "Exploiting Spatial and Spectral Image Regularities for Colour Constancy," Proc. 3rd Int'l Workshop Statistical and Computational Theories of Vision, 2003.
8. J. Shia and C. Tomasi, "Good Features to Track," Proc. Symp. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), IEEE CS Press, 1994, pp. 593-600.
9. B. Lucas and T. Kanade, "An Iterative Image Registration Technique with an Application to Stereo Vision, Proc. Int'l Joint Conf. Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Morgan Kaufmann, 1981, pp. 674-679.
10. S. Frisken, "Constrained Elastic Surface Nets: Generating Smooth Models from Binary Segmented Data," Proc. Int'l Conf. Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, Springer, 1998, pp. 888-898.
11. H. Liu and E. Milios, "Acoustic Positioning Using Multiple Microphone Arrays," J. Acoustical Soc. Am., vol. 117, no. 5, 2005, pp. 2,772-2,782.
12. P. Zhang, E. Milios, and J. Gu, "Vision Data Registration For Robot Self-Localization in 3D," Proc. Int'l Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE Press, 2005, pp. 2315-2320.
13. J.M. Saez et al., "Underwater 3D SLAM with Entropy Minimization," Proc. Int'l Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE Press, 2006, pp. 3562-3567.