Dakota Mine, March 23 2005

Location: Boone County, WV
A demonstration project to show our mobile robotics mapping technologies for the National Technology Transfer Center (NTTC).
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Bruceton Mills, September 13 2004

Location: Courtney, PA
Tested Groundhog's topological exploration capabilities. This includes intersection detection, topological mapping and tight manuvering. Results for this experiment were published in the proceedings from ICRA 2005.
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Groundhog, May 14 2004

Location: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Rebuilt and repainted Groundhog. Several parts were also replaced.
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Cave Crawler, May 6 2004

Location: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Demonstration of Crawler's capabilities.
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Ferret, April 15 2004

Location: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Experimental testing of the Ferret 3 platform.
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Groundhog, March 4 2004

Location: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Testing Groundhog's turning radius.
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Bruceton Mills, February 18 2004

Location: Courtney, PA
Groundhog performed for the History Channel.
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Bruceton Mills, December 3 2003

Location: Courtney, PA
Filming of Groundhog for the Discovery Channel.
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Mathies Mine, October 30 2003

Location: Courtney, PA
Final test of Groundhog's autonomous mapping system in a series of experiments at Mathies Mine.
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Bruceton Mills, October 29 2003

Location: Bruceton, PA
Testing at Bruceton for the autonomous mapping experiment later conducted at Mathies.
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Mathies Mine, October 22 2003

Location: Courtney, PA
Third test of Groundhog's autonomous mapping system in a series of experiments at Mathies Mine.
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Bruceton Mills, October 20 2003

Location: Bruceton, PA
Testing at Bruceton for the autonomous mapping experiment later conducted at Mathies.
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Mathies Mine, October 8 2003

Mathies Mine, October 1 2003

Bruceton Mills, September 23 2003

Location: Bruceton, PA
Testing at Bruceton for the autonomous mapping experiment later conducted at Mathies.
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Mathies Mine, June 3 2003

Location: Courtney, PA
Groundhog Day: the very first test at the Mathies Mine. This experiment opened further investigation and lead to a series of experiments at Mathies in Fall 2003.
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Kansas City, January 13 2003

Location: Kansas City, KS
Demonstration of Ferret's capabilities in both wet and dry conditions. Ferret mapped several void spaces; results were published in the proceedings from FSR 2003.
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Florence Mine, October 27 2002

Location: Florence, PA
First demonstration of the Groundhog platform. The robot was remote controlled.
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Mobile Robot Development, Fall 2002

Location: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
First mobile subterranean robots class. The course lead to the initiation of the subterranean robotics group. Early versions of Groundhog and Ferret were constructed during the semester-long course.
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Miscellaneous

Mine Mapping Images
Spinning Laser Movies
Misc Movies