Portable Highly Mobile Autonomous Robot for Mine Detection

In this project, a new TOA/TDOA UWB RAC location system will be developed and applied to precision guidance and navigation of autonomous mine-detection mobile robots. The system will be capable of pinpointing geographical position of an object with accuracies from a few centimeters to a few meters over an area of several to hundred square kilometers at a position update rate of over 200 updates per second. The location estimates will be fused with the IMU, dead reckoning sensors and GPS for high precision navigation. The fast update rate and high precision forms a basis for high performance guidance control of unmanned vehicle systems mobile robots including aerial, ground, sea vehicles. Jadi, Inc., will develop a prototype demonstration of the location system and its application to autonomous UVS.