Our lab has an extensive network of workstations,
Suns, HPs, SGIs, and other graphics, simulation and visualization
workstations with extensive user interactive facilities for recording
interacting and viewing simulations at different levels of
granularity. In addition, there is extensive hardware for
real time video capture, multiple cameras and framegrabbers and TMS
real time boards for processing of images. Facilities for CAD layout,
design and testing of prototype boards is also available to the
project.
In addition at Berkley, we have ready three test
beds for experimental and theoretical work
which have some connections with the style of intelligent control
research proposed here. These test beds are not supported by DoD
funds, but provide some background information and knowledge that is
relevant to this project, as indicated in Figure (1).
1. Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems test bed: we have three
fully instrumented cars, with sensors and an extensive simulation
facility. Surveillance test beds
also exist.
2. Air Traffic Management Systems test bed: we have a simulation
test bed in addition have access through the FAA and Boeing
to simulation
models of commercial and some civilian aircraft.
3. Intelligent battlefield TeleMedicine test bed: we have a
telesurgery test bed with cooperating robots for telesurgery, with
tissue modeling and tactile display tools. We also have access to
surgical video data from UCSF.
In addition, we have a fully instrumented model scale helicopter with
INS, camera and other sensors on board, which we have been using to
debug our algorithms for UAVs. Information about this is available
through our home page on the WWW at http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu.