Sentences with phrase «robotic vehicles»
We are currently looking to apply these methods to positioning of robotic vehicles, which are used for structural testing.
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Whereas there was a standoffish attitude with the white scarves regarding robotic vehicles in the air, with the Army the soldiers realized robots could do the things the soldiers themselves really didn't want to do.
M - Air is unusual in the autonomous aircraft space, and the U of M is eager to point out that it's now the only engineering school in the US with robotic vehicle testing for air, land, sea and space.
A new type of deep - sea robotic vehicle called Nereus has successfully reached the deepest part of the world's ocean, reports a team of U.S. engineers and scientists aboard the research vessel Kilo Moana.
One is the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge for robotic vehicles, where Spletzer was part of the team that produced «Little Ben,» a Toyota Prius fitted with laser and camera sensors.
SAN FRANCISCO — Uber's robotic vehicle project was not living up to expectations months before a self - driving car operated by the company struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Ariz..
To see how an alien habitat could develop inside that active, churning ice shell, Schmidt and Blankenship plan to send robotic vehicles down into small lakes beneath the McMurdo shelf beginning this month.
For the first time, researchers at SEAS have demonstrated a flying, swimming, insect - like robot — paving the way for future dual aerial aquatic robotic vehicles.
June 2, 2009A new type of deep - sea robotic vehicle called Nereus has successfully reached the deepest part of the world's ocean, reports a team of U.S. engineers and scientists aboard the research vessel Kilo Moana.
He said the process of methane release from hydrates had been filmed by robotic vehicles off the coast of Vancouver Island in Canada, for example.
NASA officials hope to get the industrious Curiosity Mars Rover robotic vehicle digging again on the surface of the red planet.
Similar robotic vehicles, built by researchers elsewhere in the U.S. and in Germany, have logged thousands of highway kilometers under all kinds of weather and driving conditions.
A fleet of remote - controlled robotic vehicles would target transient events — for example, gathering gases and microbes released during a seafloor eruption.
A new study suggests that drug - sniffing dogs may soon have a competitor in the workplace: an insect - piloted robotic vehicle that could help scientists build better odor - tracking robots to find disaster victims, detect illicit drugs or explosives, and sense leaks of hazardous materials.
Scientists at the NOC worked in partnership with the Defra network to collect data from The Canyons MCZ, which is over 300 km southwest of Cornwall, using an unprecedented variety of marine robotic vehicles deployed from the research ship, RRS James Cook.
By using the research ship and robotic vehicles together, the NOC team were able to create a series of detailed maps of the site at different scales from tens of kilometres down to a few millimetres.
This research was partly based on seafloor sampling at hydrothermal vent sites using the NOC maintained robotic vehicle Isis, which was launched over the side of the RRS James Cook.
The process, which was developed using data from more than 25 million miles of real - world driving, can cut the time required to evaluate robotic vehicles» handling of potentially dangerous situations by 300 to 100,000 times.
This allows small mobile robotic vehicles to create a virtual reality picture that includes a 3D map and temperature data that can be used immediately by first responders as the robot drives through a building on fire.
Engineers in the Coordinated Robotics Lab at the University of California, San Diego, have developed new image processing techniques for rapid exploration and characterization of structural fires by small Segway - like robotic vehicles.
Players can also fight crime on four wheels with K.I.T.T., the highly advanced, artificially intelligent robotic vehicle, to boost their gameplay.
Looking at how bats use echolocation and decoding how it's done is bringing scientists closer to better ways of using sonar for everything from maneuvering robotic vehicles to finding flaws in building structures.
When the researchers hefted a seafaring robotic vehicle overboard to fetch the instruments, the feed from the onboard camera sent back images of an alien seafloor landscape.
Provide quality control of records collected by CCTV equipped robotic vehicles inspecting underground utilities.
It's this same idea that NASA is hoping to recreate in transparent form, so it can cover everything from space suits to robotic vehicles in a dust repellent coating.According to PhysOrg, researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD are working with Northrop Grumman Electronics Systems and nGimat Corporation to develop the coating.
It is daunting to think about a future when human drivers will share the road with robotic vehicles that have varying degrees of autonomous capabilities, Lathrop says.
For the first time, researchers at SEAS have demonstrated a flying, swimming, insect - like robot — paving the way for future duel aerial aquatic robotic vehicles.
The submersible had been at sea for more than a year, one of a fleet of four robotic vehicles called Wave Gliders launched by Sunnyvale, Calif. — based Liquid Robotics.
Wearing a unique red license plate, the Freightliner Inspiration will be tested autonomously on limited stretches of interstate highway in Nevada, which in 2011 became the first state to adopt regulations for robotic vehicles.
This concept images shows ARM robotic capture Option B, in which the robotic vehicle ascends from the surface of a large asteroid, on its way to a lunar distant retrograde orbit with a smaller asteroid mass in its clutches.
Robotic vehicles will soon be able to better humans in their on - road ability, but psychological and legal issues remain to be solved
By using these robotic vehicles in combination, the team were able to collect a vast array of high - quality data in just three days, demonstrating how robotic vehicles can augment relatively expensive ship operations.
Rack and his team drilled a hole through the 890 - foot - thick (270 meters) ice shelf and lowered down a robotic vehicle known as the SCINI ROV (Submersible Capable of under - Ice Navigation and Imaging - Remotely Operated Vehicle) on a tether.
Robotic vehicles that can return from Mars with samples are also in the works.
A company in Great Britain is hoping to send a robotic vehicle to the Moon and land it on the South Pole of the Moon.
What was interesting information: the concept of CT scanning autopsy; blade wounds; MRI scanning and metals; posthumous sperm harvesting; nanotechnology applications for surveillance and drug delivery; GSR testing for different types of bullets; robotic vehicles and flybots.
The Stryder, meanwhile, is the leggy athlete of the robotic vehicle world, scampering over battlezones like a startled deer.
Another project by Norma Jeane, an Italian artist who took that name because he was born the night Marilyn Monroe died, suffered a similar fate: his «shy bot,» a robotic vehicle made to wander the desert alone, went missing, its data stream disabled.
Richard Lock, Dr. Ravi Vaidyanathan and their team have looked into how the common guillemot changes the way it uses its wings when flying and diving, and are using their calculations and discoveries to design a robotic vehicle with a similar morphing wing.
Engineers and biologists from the Universities of Strathclyde and Leeds in Britain have decided it's well worth looking in to just how they do it so that the technique can be employed by humans for everything from robotic vehicles to testing structures for flaws.
The researchers hope that their study of this bird's unique abilities will help create a robotic vehicle that can be used to inspect underwater oil pipelines after flying out to remote oil rigs, or for «counter-terrorism purposes.»
Fiber - optic rotary joints (FORJs) are key coupling devices in robotic vehicles, wind turbines, satellite antennas, high - definition broadcasting systems, medical imaging systems and submarines.