TRACLabs has just started work on a new Navy contract focused on developing autonomy software for controlling multiple unmanned vehicles. This work will leverage our existing NASA research on planning, scheduling, and execution. TRACLabs personnel will be attending the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Command Decision Making and Hybrid Human Computer Systems Program Review in [...]

TRACLabs has just signed a two-year, $2 million dollar contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to design software for a disaster response robot. The software will be used for tasks such as driving vehicles, climbing ladders, using tools, opening doors, manipulating equipment, and clearing rubble. While mostly autonomous, the robot will have [...]

The US Army Tank Automotive Research, Development, and Engineering Center (TARDEC) recently announced that it was awarding TRACLabs a $730,000, two-year contract entitled “PROWL: Perception for Robotic Operation over Widespread Lighting.” The goal is to develop a thermal imaging stereo system that can provide robot navigation information even in the dark. TRACLabs is teamed with [...]

The Air Force has announced that TRACLabs will be awarded a Phase I SBIR for “I-HAMMER: Interactive Autonomy for Control of Space Assets.” TRACLabs will perform this work with SIFT LLC in Minneapolis Minnesota.

The Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced that TRACLabs will receive a Phase I STTR award for “Design of Robot ­Operator Interaction for Disaster Situations.” TRACLabs will work with Dr. Robin Murphy at Texas A&M on this research.

Four TRACLabs scientists just returned from Washington DC where they attended the kick-off of the DARPA Robot Challenge (DRC). The DRC involves either building a robot that can perform disaster relief functions (Track A) or writing software that allows a DARPA-provided robot to perform the same disaster relief functions (Track B). TRACLabs was given a [...]

TRACLabs was pleased to have four interns this past summer at our Houston location and one intern located in Buffalo NY. Shown below from left to right are: Brian Lemke from Texas A&M, Jeff Johnson from Indiana University, Joshua James from the University of Texas, and Nicholas Barrash from Georgia Tech. These interns worked with [...]

Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) researchers and their contractors visited TRACLabs for a Technical Interchange Meeting (TIM) that focused on technologies for on-board satellite autonomy. The one-and-a-half-day meeting discussed topics such as planning, execution, fault detection, and flight experiments. TRACLabs has contracts with AFRL to provide on-board autonomy technology.  

Dr. Robin Murphy, Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, and her student Zach Henkel recently visited TRACLabs. Dr. Murphy is collaborating with TRACLabs on a robotic system for the Army that will evacuate wounded soldiers from the battlefield. Dr. Murphy is a leading expert in the use of robots for [...]

Several researchers from Smart Information Flow Technologies (SIFT) visited TRACLabs recently. TRACLabs and SIFT are teamed on several projects supporting both the Air Force and NASA. SIFT brings expertise in automatic synthesis of control rules from high-level plans. This is combined with TRACLabs experience in automated planning and execution of plans. The Air Force is [...]

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