Automated Material
Transport System



Technology Transfer

The technology described in "System and Method for Object Localization" is available for licensing.

Patents
U.S. Patent #5,999,866 and international - "Infrastructure Independent Position Determining System”

U.S. Patent #6,453,223 and international - "Infrastructure Independent Position Determining System” – Continuation In Part.

U.S. Patent #6,952,488 and international - "System and Method for Object Localization"

Ford Motor Company has licensed the technology described in "Infrastructure Independent Position Determining System”

Publications
Kelly, A., "Mobile Robot Localization from Large Scale Appearance Mosaics,” International Journal of Robotics Research, 19 (11), 2000.

Kelly, A., Nagy, B., "Reactive Nonholomic Trajectory Generation via Parametric Optimal Control,” International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 22, No. 7-8, 583-601 (2003).

Kelly, A., "Linearized Error Propagation in Odometry,” International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 23, No. 2, February 2004, pp. 179-218.

Kelly, A., Nagy, B., Stager, D., Unnikrishnan, R.,"An Infrastructure-Free Automated Guided Vehicle Based on Computer Vision,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine.