Providing mobile robots with autonomous capabilities is advantageous. It allows one to
dispense with the intervention of human operators, which may prove beneficial in economic …

Timing management for user-level real-time threads can be done with appropriate support of
the kernel. When a specified time comes, the kernel makes a virtual processor to upcall a …

Increasing autonomy on mobile robots is essential. The main reason is to provide them with
the ability to perform operations on their own. This skill is desirable in fields such as …

For the operation of Mars rovers the ground team has a set of utilities to generate safe
mission planning. A relevant aspect of such planning are the paths that the rover has to to …

A current challenge in path planning is the ability to efficiently calculate a near-optimum path
solution through a highly-constrained environment in near-real time. In addition, computing …