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• Aerial Robot Collision Avoidance

  Sensor technologies and algorithms for achieving better autonomous flight despite the challenges of power and weight.

• Automated Orbital Mapping

  The Automated Orbital Mapping project is developing machine vision techniques to extract features from hyperspectral imagery of Mars. Machine learning is applied to interpret and classify geology and create maps.

• Automation for Specialty Agriculture

• Automation for Specialty Crops

  Comprehensive Automation for Specialty Crops (CASC) is a multi-institutional initiative led by Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute to comprehensively address the needs of specialty agriculture focusing on apples and horticultural stock. CASC will develop methods to improve production efficiency, identify threats from pests and diseases, and, detect, monitor and respond to food safety hazards. We expect advances from the integration of robotics technology and plant science.

• Beamed-power Lunar Rover

  Power beaming, by laser or other wavelength, enables operation and recharging of rovers for without fixed infrastructure. Rovers on the moon could operate on crater floors and areas of shadow.

• Community Development Technologies

  The TechBridgeWorld initiative creates and delivers technical solutions to advance developing communities around the world.

• Coordinated Assembly Teams

  We are developing human-robot interaction technologies to make autonomous workforces both efficient and reliable by applying techniques for variable autonomy.

• Distributed SensorWebs

  SensorWebs are distributed networks of intercommunicating sensor modules. We are developing wireless technology for distributed sensing and actuation in horticultural environments.

• Lunar Regolith Excavation and Transport

  We are developing techniques for excavation and materials transport on the moon and innovating new mechanisms and methods for lunar operations.

• Lunar Prospecting Rover

  Scarab is a rover concept for deploying a drill and instruments to explore craters of the lunar poles and to prospect for elements and compounds, like oxygen and water in the lunar soil.

• Google Lunar X Prize

  Carnegie Mellon Roboticists are currently developing a lunar rover to be part of the first commerical mission to the moon.

• Subterranean Robotics

  To improve the accuracy and completeness of underground information, we are developing robotic exploration, mapping and servicing in underground spaces, such as abandoned mines, caves, and sewers.