Rocker Robotics — Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition
May 1, 2024
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Autonomy and Controls Technical Lead (2022–23), then team member (2023–24) for South Dakota Mines’ entry in the International Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition.
Results: Won Rookie of the Year award and placed in the design competition.
Technical contributions:
- ROS-based sensor integration (LIDAR, GPS, camera)
- Lane detection via computer vision
- Path planning with A*
- Trajectory tracking with Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) Control
- Frontier-based autonomous exploration for course navigation
Authors
Graduate Researcher
Outland is a doctoral student at the University of Colorado Boulder, Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences. His research is in differential game theory, safe multi-agent systems, and computational astrodynamics — with a focus on algorithms that are tractable enough to run onboard while providing formal guarantees.