I have been working on getting
MORSE to a point that I can use it to develop some simple obstacle detection and avoidance algorithms. The vehicle I am trying to emulate is a Polaris EV with an automation package on it from
Kairos Autonomi. The vehicle pulls a fiberglass trailer with Electromagnetic sensors on it which are used to find and discriminate UXO (unexploded ordinance) for the US ARMY Corp of Engineers. In this video I am using
ROS to issue commands to the simulated vehicle (due to decent ROS support in MORSE atm), but on the real system our team has a monolithic stand-alone app with plans for moving to
JAUS. Here are some screen shots and a short
YouTube video. Here is a
video of the actual vehicle (I'm not in that video).