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posted on 1999-01-01, 00:00 authored by John M. Dolan, Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu, Alvaro Soto, Pradeep K. KhoslaIn Carnegie Mellon University's CyberScout project, we are developing mobile robotic technologies that will extend
the sphere of awareness and mobility of small military units while exploring issues of command and control, task
decomposition, multi-agent collaboration, e±cient perception algorithms, and sensor fusion. This paper describes
our work on robotic all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), one of several platforms within CyberScout. We have retrofitted
two Polaris ATVs as mobile robotic surveillance and reconnaissance platforms. We describe the computing, sensing,
and actuation infrastructure of these platforms, their current capabilities, and future research and applications.