The founders and owners Alberto Lacaze, President, and Karl Murphy, Vice President, started Robotic Research, LLC in 2002 during a resurgence of military interest in unmanned vehicles. The late 1990s to early 2000s was when unmanned vehicles were first proven to be capable of autonomous mobility through the DEMO I, II, and III testing programs where TRL6 (Technical Readiness Level) was achieved. The founders were an integral part of this testing while at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
The Robotic Research, LLC technical staff plays key roles in major Department of Defense unmanned ground system programs. Robotic Research team members designed and developed, in conjunction with General Dynamics Robotic Systems, the autonomous mobility software for most autonomous ground robotic systems currently in use by the U. S. Army.
Major Contributions
- Developed the real-time path planning and sensor processing software that forms the core of the Army Research Lab’s DEMO III program with the Experimental Unmanned Vehicle (XUV). The XUV epitomizes the state-of-the-art in Army ground robotic vehicles.
- Refined a real-time intelligent navigation system for off-road path planning that has become the de-facto methodology for ground vehicle control, as well as probabilistic density functions for predicting tactical behavior.
- Created a new approach to automating high speed convoys that has been called a breakthrough by Major General Charles A. Cartwright (Program Manager for Future Combat Systems).
- Developed a variety of interactive 3D data visualization tools.
- Developed teleoperation driving aids for high speed operations.
- Researched collaborative and cooperative behavioral control amongst robotic assets by using map registration techniques for improving perception and navigation. Recognized and tested through the MAGIC-210 competition sponsored by TARDEC
- First place winners of TARDEC's CANINE competition
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11-50 employees
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Defense & Space
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240-631-0008
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22601 Gateway Center Dr, Clarksburg, Maryland 20871, US
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2002
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Localization, Robotics, Navigation, Perception, Autonomous Vehicles, Autonomy, Autonomous Technology, Gps-Denied Navigation, Self-Driving Technology
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