UGVLab

The research focuses on developing innovative techniques for the autonomy of unmanned ground vehicles.

A simulation environment, based on standard well-known simulation frameworks, is created and operative. This environment can be fed with external models for both landscapes (structures and non-structured) and vehicles. Furthermore, the kinetics laws are modelled as well to provide a simulation as close to the reality as possible.

Once the whole simulation environment is created, the techniques and algorithms to be tested for autonomy (navigation, vision, path planning...) are injected and the simulation can be executed.

We close the loop by improving the starting algorithms with the feedback from the simulation tasks.

The use of real on-board hardware boards provides a real Hardware-in-the-loop simulation environment, boosting the obtained results.