Robotic autonomous systems for earthmoving in military applications

QP Ha, L Yen, C Balaguer - Automation in Construction, 2019 - Elsevier
Along with increasing innovations in frontier engineering sciences, the advancement in
Robotic Autonomous Systems (RAS) has brought about a new horizon in earthmoving …

Comprehensive study of skid-steer wheeled mobile robots: Development and challenges

R Khan, FM Malik, A Raza, N Mazhar - Industrial Robot: the …, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive and unified presentation
of recent developments in skid-steer wheeled mobile robots (SSWMR) with regard to its …

Research on dynamic path planning based on the fusion algorithm of improved ant colony optimization and rolling window method

Q **, C Tang, W Cai - IEEE access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper focuses on the problem that the current path planning algorithm is not mature
enough to achieve the expected goal in a complex dynamic environment. In light of the ant …

Kinematics-aware model predictive control for autonomous high-speed tracked vehicles under the off-road conditions

Z Zhao, H Liu, H Chen, J Hu, H Guo - Mechanical Systems and Signal …, 2019 - Elsevier
Although accurate trajectory tracking of autonomous vehicles strongly depends on a precise
model, it is difficult to establish a precise model for high-speed tracked vehicles under off …

Payload-aware trajectory optimisation for non-holonomic mobile multi-robot manipulation with tip-over avoidance

F Kennel-Maushart, S Coros - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cooperative mobile manipulation is an increasingly important topic in robotics: Just as
humans need to collaborate on many tasks, robots need to be able to work together, eg, to …

Infrastructure-aided localization and state estimation for autonomous mobile robots

D Flögel, NP Bhatt, E Hashemi - Robotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
A slip-aware localization framework is proposed for mobile robots experiencing wheel slip in
dynamic environments. The framework fuses infrastructure-aided visual tracking data (via …

Slippage prediction for off-road mobile robots via machine learning regression and proprioceptive sensing

R Gonzalez, M Fiacchini, K Iagnemma - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents a new approach for predicting slippage associated with individual
wheels in off-road mobile robots. More specifically, machine learning regression algorithms …

Robotic autonomous systems for earthmoving equipment operating in volatile conditions and teaming capacity: a survey

HAD Nguyen, QP Ha - Robotica, 2023 - cambridge.org
There has been an increasing interest in the application of robotic autonomous systems
(RASs) for construction and mining, particularly the use of RAS technologies to respond to …

Slip-aware motion estimation for off-road mobile robots via multi-innovation unscented Kalman filter

F Liu, X Li, S Yuan, W Lan - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Benefiting from high mobility and robust mechanical structure, ground mobile robots are
widely adopted in the outdoor environment. The mobility of skid-steered mobile robots highly …

Power and energy consumption of skid‐steer rovers turning on loose soil

JS Fiset, M Effati, K Skonieczny - Journal of Field Robotics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This study highlights two key phenomena affecting power and energy consumption of skid‐
steer rovers on loose soil that is not present on the hard ground: soil excavation due to …