Autonomous Robotic Vehicle Links
Official Competition and Competitor Homepages
Competition Pages
Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition Homepage
(Competition @ Epcot in 2000)
Oakland U Campus Map
AUVS Air/Land/Water Competitions Homepage
List of Other Competitions + dates
and
Mirror Site
Article on the 97 Competition
Contact People
Oakland University
Renee Lane (
rnlane@saturn4.acs.oakland.edu
) ... Assistant Host, 1999
Candy McLellan (
mclellan@oakland.edu
) ... No longer an organizer.
Geoff Clark (
gtclark@oakland.edu
)
US Military
Mike Toscano (
toscanom@acq.osd.mil
). Pentagon / Joint Robotics Program representative at the Competition.
Mark Mikula (
mikulam@cc.tacom.army.mil
) or
phone:
(810) 574-5758
Gerry Lane, (
laneg@cc.tacom.army.mil)
,
phone:(810)574-6683
), TARDEC
More in the
Organizations
section
Competitor Pages and
Official Competitor Links
Cincinatti
Bearcat
with '97 results
Email Contact (1999)
Colorado
R.A.T.
Email Contact(1999)
Email Contact (1999)
C2 -- Colorado School of Mines
CUGAR -- Colorado @ Denver
Email Contact (1999)
Hosei, Japan.
Vehitle
New site...
completely in Japanese
Email Contact (1999)
Vehitle
Old site.
Hosei's Control System (original page)
Hosei's Control System (Mirror)
Michigan Tech. University
Unmanned Rob. Project
... someone has to teach these guys what REAL beer is like! (-: (Just kidding!)
Email Contact (1999)
Northern Illinois University
Email Contact (1999)
Email Contact (1999)
Oakland University
Oakland Association of Unmanned Vehicles
Maverick
didn't compete in 1998
Tulsa University
No known webpage
Email Contact (1999)
University of Detroit, Mercy
No known webpage
Email Contact (1999)
Email Contact (1999)
Virginia Tech
Herbie, Ivan & Nevel
Email Contact (1999)
Wayne State University
No known webpage
Email Contact (1999)
Universita di Parma (Italy) -- NOT a real competitor... just a neat page.
ARGO -- Autonomous Car.
Not really a competitor... but their ideas are almost the same as what we've implemented.
Design Details Available
.
Similar Military Projects
DEMO III
eXperimental Unmanned Vehicle (XUV)
Demo III Homepage
Demo III @ CMU Homepage
Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles Page (US Gov)
&
Mirror
Demo II information
Powerpoint presentation available in
~/arvp/docs/demo3.PPT
.
SARGE -- an ATV robot.
Very Cool. [06/22/98]
TUGV
... Cross Country Navigation. CMU, DRES & TACOM involved. Includes Final Report
Pictures of the Polar Bear
Picture Page
... Takes a while to load!
Hardware
General EE Sites
Electrical Engg. Cookbook
Great Place to Start
Other EE-related Sites
Other neat places
Motors
MOSFET H-bridges (used to drive motors)
High Powered H-bridges
12 & 24 volts; up to 50 Amps; Cheap, too!
Open Source High-Current Motor Driver
VERY interesting!
PCB, PDF schematics included
PCB layout for H-bridge
PCB for 3A/55 V H-bridge
Wirz 6A Board
w/ two Nat. Semi. LMD18200's
Motor Control Board
with feedback ($150)
Harris Semiconductors H-bridges & Voltage Doublers
Advanced Motion Controls
... Commercial DC motor amplifiers.
Precision Micro Dynamics
... Commericial DC motor Amplifiers (Canadian)
Australian Motors
Franklin Electric Motors
Motor Locator page
Speed control with brake
HP Quadrature Decoders
with application notes for HC11
Tutorials
Motorola SPS Site
Stepper Theory
Stepper Theory (Australia)
Menu
Stepper Theory (Aus)
Steppers
@ Seattle Robotics Club
Servo Motors
Hacking a Servo motor into a DC motor
Servo & PIC controller -- speed control w/ H-bridge
Motor Driving Circuits -- Solenoids
Pinball Solenoid Circuits
SGS-Thomson L6213
SGS-Thomson Octal Serial Solenoid Driver
HC11
MIT's 6.270 Lego / HC11 Robotics Course
... Includes course notes (
PDF File
)
Serial I/O Functions for (IC?)
Debugging Serial Routines
A good HC11 book
. How to use the HC11 for Robot Control, communications, etc.
****
HC11 & PIA --> Course Assignment
MC6821 PIA data sheet
68332
Motorola 68332 Page
New Micros Page
. Offers good deal on a good board -- EPROM-based compiler (Forth)
68332 FAQ
Forth Compilers
Introl Compilers
EFI 332 Page
. Small & Cheap 332 board. Used in Fuel injections systems.
More EFI 332 Parts
. Cool!
EFI Software & other files
Stereo Imaging
VxOptronics StereoCameras
Small Vision System
$US500 Vision system using Linux
Point Grey
Telephotogenics
... can make stereo
Source Code at CMU
Includes stereovision source code for Konolige's Small Vision System
Serial Port Communication
Serial Port Interfacing
. Sample Software & Hardware Details.
*****
Serial Port Hardware and Software
Serial under WinNT
MarshallSoft Windows Comm Libraries
shareware
Serial FAQ
Serial Animation/Operation (Hardware)
Linux Serial Library
. Simple serial port API:
http://www.hensa.ac.uk/ftp/mirrors/sunsite/pub/Linux/libs/libserial-0.1.1.tar.gz
Microsoft VC Win32 Serial Communications
VCOMM FAQ
Java Serial Control
Serial control using DLLs and Visual Basic
Vision
Machine Vision Programs / Source Code Links
Digital Camera Reviews 1
Digital Camera Reviews 2
Machine Vision Links
Matrox 4Sight
also with
MIL Image Libraries
for WinNT
SAIC
Sponsor @ Comp. Does robots & vision (but not shown on webpage)
ActivRobots
Manufactures Pioneer Robots with pan-tilt vision and stereo vision. Linux and Win NT/95/98
Telephotogenics
... Edmonton based
Sonar
Sonar hardware & software using MIT HC11 Handyboard.
Polaroid 6500 circuit
6500 FAQ
Polaroid 7000
Hints on sonar with Handyboard (HC11)
EDP UltraSonic Sensors
. Automates the SONAR process... Analogue output?
Herian Proffer.
Sells precision SONARs
Navigation Algorithms
Flakey
Flakey's architecture
Artificial Intelligence Center of SRI International (Menlo Park, California)
Paper on Flakey
NavLab / ALVINN
Great article of NavLab with PICTURES!
NAVLAB Homepage
ALVINN Project Homepage
MATLAB stuff for ALVINN
NavLab overview
Neural Networks / Adaptive Logic Networks
Hardware
ALVINN on a Chip (CMOS)
Adaptive Logic Network software
Asynchronous Learning Network
Software
Cyberlife Software. Article from "Le Devoir" (in French)
RALPH: lane detection for cars
The Original Neural Network -- The Brain!
Mind control @ U of Alberta
Other Cool Autonomous Robotic Pages
DELPHIS: U of A Underwater Project
CMPUT 412 -- Mobile Robotics Course (U of Alberta)
List of MANUFACTURERS
Robotic.Com
RobinMurphy's Homepage
Omnitech Robotics, Inc.
NavLab-UGV Homepage
Neural Net pages around the world
ALVINN
: Neural Network Navigation.
STRIPE
: Teleoperating vehicles over low bandwidth links.
A Reactive System for Off-Road Autonomous Driving.
3-D Vision for AutonomousNavigation
GANESHA
: Grid BasedNavigation.
DAMN
: A Distributed Architecture for Mobile Navigation.
Panacea - Vision Control System for ALVINN
Mobile Robot Project Online (1)
Mobile Robot Project Online (2)
Software
HC11 software (Interactive C, etc...)
/pub/projects
Robot Screen Saver
Organizations
Canadian
PRECARN
Possible sponsors, support. [06/98]
IRIS
Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems
Canada Foundation for Innovation.
Funding and stuff. [06/98]
United States
AUVSI
[06/66/98]
Vision and Autonomous Systems Center
MIT Robotics and Electronics Cooperative
MIT Media Lab
-- Find Interactive C & HC11 stuff on their FTP site!
US Military / Gov't (Robotics)
TACOM
Mike Toscano (
toscanom@acq.osd.mil
). Pentagon / Joint Robotics Program representative at the Competition.
Mark Mikula (
mikulam@cc.tacom.army.mil
) or
phone:
(810)574-5758 in regards to the
TACOM Acquisition
page.
TACOM Acquisistion Center.
TACOM / JRP Project Contracting Page.
JPO Unmanned Vehicles
[06/22/98]
US Gov't (Documents & Search Engines)
FedWorld.
Search for government documents online.
National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
NASA Scientific & Technical Information Server (STARS)
STAR documents
Technical Reports Server
Papers
Flakey -- Fuzzy Logic Navigation.
(Mentions Colorado Schoolof Mines, Genetic Algorithms...)
CMU School of Comp. Sci Papers