Stanford Aerospace Robotics Lab
Stanford AA department lab researching autonomous navigation and robotics for air, space, land, and water vehicles using feedback control and sensing.
The Stanford Aerospace Robotics Laboratory (ARL) is a research group within Stanford University's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Stanford, California. Directed by Stephen Rock, Professor Emeritus of Aeronautics and Astronautics, it runs experimental programs in which graduate students test control and autonomy methods on real hardware. It is an academic lab, not a supplier.
Research centers on feedback control, integrated sensing and task-level autonomy, notably Objective-Based Task-Level Control, in which an operator sets high-level objectives while the robot handles path planning. Testbeds include three free-flying space robots floating on air bearings over a large flat granite table, each fitted with cold-gas thrusters, two DC-motor-driven manipulators with pneumatic grippers, onboard vision and wireless Ethernet; they have demonstrated object acquisition, adaptive identification of unmeasured payloads, docking of massive objects and formation flight. A macro/micro manipulator rig pairs a flexible-jointed macro arm with two 1.5 m links and two micro arms, and a climbing-robot program with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory used probabilistic motion planning and slip-minimizing torque control to JPL's LEMUR robot. Related work covers GPS- and vision-based navigation for autonomous aircraft and underwater vehicles.
Lab project pages were last updated in 2010.
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