Autonomous Urban Reconnaissance Ingress System (AURIS)

The Autonomous Urban Reconnaissance Ingress System (AURIS) addresses a significant limitation of current military robotics technology: the inability of reconnaissance robots to open doors. It can perform with or without using explosive charges, can operate quickly to allow rapid ingress, has the versatility to be eventually used for locked or difficult to open doors, and intends to prove its feasibility with semi-autonomous control but provides a feasible path for fully autonomous interior building reconnaissance based on an innovative combination of proven technology. It allows the use of many different robots and is designed to be easily implemented on standard military platforms. The AURIS is a product of the combined experience of Boston Engineering Corporation and Autonomous Solutions Inc. and leverages their robotics, mechanical systems, software, vision and vehicle controls experiences. AURIS removes the disadvantages of current operator-intensive systems based on operator manual or visual-servoing control. It can provide a Phase I that endeavors to not only develop the system design and determine the required capabilities of the platform and manipulator arm, but demonstrate feasibility through the use of existing hardware applied towards the challenge of door-opening and pass-through.