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   Autonomous Urban Platform
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The main objective of the project is reliable long-term operation of a robotic ground vehicle in an outdoor environment. Our plan is to achieve this goal in three steps:
1. Build a reliable hardware/software combination.
2. Using this platform, pursue new research in navigation, terrain classification, obstacle avoidance.
3. Demonstrate long-term (several hours) operation of the vehicle in an outdoor urban environment.

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To achieve the desired level of hardware reliability we use a commercial platform purchased from Segway.

We see modular component-based architecture as key to software quality and scalability. The requirements of this project partly drive the open-source Orca project.

We hope that having access to a reliable robot with significant payload capacity and power will allow us pursue interesting experimental research on outdoor navigation, obstacle avoidance, visual terrain classification, etc.