WAMbot: Team MAGICian's entry to the Multi Autonomous Ground‐robotic International Challenge 2010

• DOI: 10.1002/rob.21434
• Publication Date: 2012-07-24T17:18:39Z
• Authors: Adrian Boeing; Mark Boulton; Thomas Bräunl; Brian Frisch; Sam Lopes; Aidan Morgan; Frank Ophelders; Sushil Pangeni; Robert Reid; Kevin Vinsen; Nicolas Garel; Chang Su Lee; Martin Masek; Anthony Attwood; Michael Fazio; Adam Gandossi
• Keywords: Unmanned ground vehicle; Ground station

This article describes “WAMbot,'' an autonomous unmanned ground vehicle and the Team MAGICian solution to 2010 Multi Autonomous Ground-robotic International Challenge (MAGIC). The system architecture, hardware, sensing, planning, navigation, mapping systems, user interface were specifically designed address demands of large-scale distributed reconnaissance surveillance task presented in challenge. resulting was selected as a finalist ultimately placed 4th MAGIC 2010. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.