The Mitre Meteor Robot Control Software: Simulate as You Operate

Author

Weatherly, Richard M. ; Kuhl, Frederick S. ; Boiling, R.H. ; Grabowski, Robert J.

Author_Institution

MITRE Corp., McLean, VA

fYear

2006

fDate

3-6 Dec. 2006

Firstpage

1294

Lastpage

1298

Abstract

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) challenged autonomous ground vehicle developers in the "2005 DARPA Grand Challenge" to build a vehicle that could complete a 132 mile course through the American desert southwest. MITRE, a not-for-profit systems engineering company, responded to this challenge by creating the MITRE Meteor in just 11 months. This rapid development relied on software employment transparency to get the maximum utility out of each line of code. Judicious design of the software framework allowed the same body of code to animate the robot in the field, support laboratory experimentation, and analyze recorded field testing data. This paper describes how software employment transparency was achieved and how it increased development efficiency

Keywords

control engineering computing; mobile robots; software engineering; MITRE Meteor robot control software; autonomous ground vehicle; software employment transparency; Automotive engineering; Employment; Land vehicles; Mobile robots; Modeling; Remotely operated vehicles; Road vehicles; Robot control; Software design; Systems engineering and theory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Simulation Conference, 2006. WSC 06. Proceedings of the Winter

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0500-9

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0501-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WSC.2006.323227

Filename

4117751