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Fletcher Talbot

5 accepted papers

2024

Demonstrating Event-Triggered Investigation and Sample Collection for Human Scientists using Field Robots and Large Foundation Models

RSS 2024poster

In this paper, we introduce a pioneering end-to-end system demonstrated on a team of robots and sensors, designed to augment scientific exploration and discovery for human scientists in remote or inaccessible environments. We demonstrate and analyse our system's capability in a mock-up test-bed scen…

2022

Multi-modal User Interface for Multi-robot Control in Underground Environments

IROS 2022poster

Leveraging both the autonomy of robots and the expert knowledge of humans can enable a multi-robot system to complete missions in challenging environments with a high degree of adaptivity and robustness. This paper proposes a multi-modal task-based graphical user interface for controlling a heteroge…

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2021

Virtual Surfaces and Attitude Aware Planning and Behaviours for Negative Obstacle Navigation

RA-L 2021

This letter presents an autonomous navigation system for ground robots traversing aggressive unstructured terrain through a cohesive arrangement of mapping, deliberative planning and reactive behaviour modules. All systems are aware of terrain slope, visibility and vehicle orientation, enabling robo

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2018

Magneto: A Versatile Multi-Limbed Inspection Robot

IROS 2018poster

In this paper we present the design and control strategies of a novel quadruped climbing robot (named Magneto) with three degrees of freedom (3-DOF) actuated limbs and a 3-DOF compliant magnetic foot. By exploiting its high degrees of freedom, Magneto is able to deform its body shape to squeeze thro…

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2017

The Multilegged Autonomous eXplorer (MAX)

ICRA 2017poster

To address the goal of locomotion in very complex and difficult terrains, the authors are developing a new class of Ultralight Legged Robots. This paper presents the Multilegged Autonomous eXplorer (MAX), an ultralight, six-legged robot for traversal and exploration of challenging indoor and outdoor…

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