PRIMUS: autonomous navigation in open terrain with a tracked vehicle

Guenter W. Schaub; Alfred H. Pfaendner; Christoph Schaefer

doi:10.1117/12.542094

2 September 2004 PRIMUS: autonomous navigation in open terrain with a tracked vehicle

Guenter W. Schaub, Alfred H. Pfaendner, Christoph Schaefer

Proceedings Volume 5422, Unmanned Ground Vehicle Technology VI; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.542094
Event: Defense and Security, 2004, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

The German experimental robotics program PRIMUS (PRogram for Intelligent Mobile Unmanned Systems) is focused on solutions for autonomous driving in unknown open terrain, over several project phases under specific realization aspects for more than 12 years. The main task of the program is to develop algorithms for a high degree of autonomous navigation skills with off-the-shelf available hardware/sensor technology and to integrate this into military vehicles. For obstacle detection a Dornier-3D-LADAR is integrated on a tracked vehicle "Digitized WIESEL 2". For road-following a digital video camera and a visual perception module from the Universitaet der Bundeswehr Munchen (UBM) has been integrated. This paper gives an overview of the PRIMUS program with a focus on the last program phase D (2001 - 2003). This includes the system architecture, the description of the modes of operation and the technology development with the focus on obstacle avoidance and obstacle classification using a 3-D LADAR. A collection of experimental results and a short look at the next steps in the German robotics program will conclude the paper.

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Guenter W. Schaub, Alfred H. Pfaendner, and Christoph Schaefer "PRIMUS: autonomous navigation in open terrain with a tracked vehicle", Proc. SPIE 5422, Unmanned Ground Vehicle Technology VI, (2 September 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.542094

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