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43-426: Swift Engineering is an American engineering firm that builds autonomous systems , helicopters , submarines , spacecraft , ground vehicles, robotics , and composite parts. The chairman and CEO is Hiro Matsushita , a former racecar driver and grandson of the founder of Panasonic , Konosuke Matsushita . Swift used to produce racing cars for open-wheel racing series including Formula Ford , Formula Atlantic ,

86-694: A Swift Ultra Long Endurance (SULE)  [ ja ] 30-day mission high-altitude long endurance (HALE) UAS with flight tests including 24-hrs, 48-hrs, and 7-days during the Phase 2 timeline for NASA . All operations, ground control, safety, reviews, and payload will be included in these test flights and within the proposed 2-year timeframe. Swift HALE completed its first test flight from Spaceport America in New Mexico in 2020. In 2017, Swift Engineering designed, fabricated, and delivered QTY 10, 10-ft Iridium NEXT payload adapter cylinders, and structures for

129-414: A 50 ft. XLUUV unmanned submarine. Swift Engineering is the parent of a diverse set of subsidiaries. Autonomous robot Industrial robot arms that work on assembly lines inside factories may also be considered autonomous robots, though their autonomy is restricted due to a highly structured environment and their inability to locomote . The first requirement for complete physical autonomy

172-515: A bill was introduced in Washington, D.C., allowing pilot ground robotic deliveries. The program was to take place from September 15 through the end of December 2017. The robots were limited to a weight of 50 pounds unloaded and a maximum speed of 10 miles per hour. In case the robot stopped moving because of malfunction the company was required to remove it from the streets within 24 hours. There were allowed only 5 robots to be tested per company at

215-485: A conference to highlight the ethical concerns which arise from the increasingly advanced technology for autonomous robots to wield weapons and to play a military role. The first autonomous robots were known as Elmer and Elsie , constructed in the late 1940s by W. Grey Walter . They were the first robots programmed to "think" the way biological brains do and were meant to have free will . Elmer and Elsie were often labeled as tortoises because of how they were shaped and

258-399: A maximum weight of 50 pounds. In the states of Idaho and Florida there are also talks about passing the similar legislature. It has been discussed that robots with similar characteristics to invalid carriages (e.g. 10 mph maximum, limited battery life) might be a workaround for certain classes of applications. If the robot was sufficiently intelligent and able to recharge itself using

301-825: A new car for the series, using 016.a as a chassis code. Swift became the sole supplier of chassis for the Japanese Formula Nippon championship in 2009 with the 017.n chassis (also known as the FN09). An updated model called SF13 was used in 2013. The company proposed a derivative of the 017.n, the 020.I, in response to Indy Lights ' requirement for a new chassis for the 2014 season. Beginning in 1997, Swift diversified into aerospace/aviation markets, working with major companies including Northrop Grumman , Boeing , Lockheed Martin , SpaceX , Sikorsky , and others. Swift has also worked for governmental agencies such as NASA . Swift Engineering designed, built, and delivered

344-475: A number of Autonomous spaceport drone ships , used to safely land and recover Falcon 9 rockets at sea. Outdoor autonomy is the most difficult for ground vehicles, due to: There are several open problems in autonomous robotics which are special to the field rather than being a part of the general pursuit of AI. According to George A. Bekey's Autonomous Robots: From Biological Inspiration to Implementation and Control , problems include things such as making sure

387-490: A physical task. A new area showing commercial promise is domestic robots, with a flood of small vacuuming robots beginning with iRobot and Electrolux in 2002. While the level of intelligence is not high in these systems, they navigate over wide areas and pilot in tight situations around homes using contact and non-contact sensors. Both of these robots use proprietary algorithms to increase coverage over simple random bounce. The next level of autonomous task performance requires

430-399: A pilot operation at Hyundai Motor Group's headquarters since 2021. VISION AI System based on deep learning technology has been applied. When an electric vehicle is parked in front of the charger, the robot arm recognizes the charger of the electric vehicle and derives coordinates. And automatically insert a connector into the electric car and operate fast charging. The robot arm is configured in

473-533: A robot to perform conditional tasks. For instance, security robots can be programmed to detect intruders and respond in a particular way depending upon where the intruder is. For example, Amazon (company) launched its Astro for home monitoring, security and eldercare in September 2021. For a robot to associate behaviors with a place ( localization ) requires it to know where it is and to be able to navigate point-to-point. Such navigation began with wire-guidance in

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516-414: A scaled down version of bigger robots with the same types of sensors, kinematics and software stack (e.g. ROS). They are often extendable and provide comfortable programming interface and development tools. Next to full scale robot prototyping they are also used for education, especially at university level, where more and more labs about programming autonomous vehicles are being introduced. In March 2016,

559-650: A time. A 2017 version of the Personal Delivery Device Act bill was under review as of March 2017. In February 2017, a bill was passed in the US state of Virginia via the House bill, HB2016, and the Senate bill, SB1207, that will allow autonomous delivery robots to travel on sidewalks and use crosswalks statewide beginning on July 1, 2017. The robots will be limited to a maximum speed of 10 mph and

602-412: A type of autonomous robot military system that can independently search for and engage targets based on programmed constraints and descriptions. LAWs are also known as lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS), autonomous weapon systems (AWS), robotic weapons, killer robots or slaughterbots. LAWs may operate in the air, on land, on water, under water, or in space. The autonomy of current systems as of 2018

645-448: A vertical multi-joint structure so that it can be applied to chargers at different locations for each vehicle. In addition, waterproof and dustproof functions are applied. Construction robots are used directly on job sites and perform work such as building, material handling, earthmoving, and surveillance. Research and education mobile robots are mainly used during a prototyping phase in the process of building full scale robots. They are

688-580: Is a fixed-wing design and can take off and land vertically. This drone features a large wing and four propellers. Swift Engineering initially released the Swift020 model, which was primarily used for research and development purposes, and later upgraded it to the Swift021. The latest version of the drone, the Swift Crane, is a commercialized variant. In 2018 Swift proposed to design, fabricate, and fly

731-487: Is most easily achieved in the air, since obstacles are rare. Cruise missiles are rather dangerous highly autonomous robots. Pilotless drone aircraft are increasingly used for reconnaissance. Some of these unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are capable of flying their entire mission without any human interaction at all except possibly for the landing where a person intervenes using radio remote control. Some drones are capable of safe, automatic landings, however. SpaceX operates

774-472: Is related to autonomous foraging , a concern within the sciences of behavioral ecology , social anthropology , and human behavioral ecology ; as well as robotics , artificial intelligence , and artificial life . As autonomous robots have grown in ability and technical levels, there has been increasing societal awareness and news coverage of the latest advances, and also some of the philosophical issues, economic effects, and societal impacts that arise from

817-443: Is the ability for a robot to take care of itself. Many of the battery-powered robots on the market today can find and connect to a charging station, and some toys like Sony's Aibo are capable of self-docking to charge their batteries. Self-maintenance is based on " proprioception ", or sensing one's own internal status. In the battery charging example, the robot can tell proprioceptively that its batteries are low, and it then seeks

860-744: The Champ Car World Series and Formula Nippon . They company has designed and manufactured over 500 race cars. Swift is certified to AS9100 , ISO 14001 and ISO 27000 . Swift Engineering was founded in 1983 by David Bruns, Alex Cross, R. K. Smith , and Paul White under the name Swift Racing Cars . Their first car, the DB-1, was a Formula Ford which won the SCCA National Championship in its debut race. The company later built cars for Sports 2000 , Formula Ford 2000 , Formula Atlantic , and CART . Swift chassis won

903-589: The Kobe Institute of Computing to open its first office abroad in Kobe , Japan. Since 2018, Yale physicist and executive Nick Barua has overseen management. The first Swift racecar was the DB-1 Formula Ford. The car won its debut race, the 1983 SCCA Runoffs at Road Atlanta. The DB-1 was the third car designed by Bruns and was considered to be a design simplification of Burns's previous design,

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946-626: The 1970s and progressed in the early 2000s to beacon-based triangulation . Current commercial robots autonomously navigate based on sensing natural features. The first commercial robots to achieve this were Pyxus' HelpMate hospital robot and the CyberMotion guard robot, both designed by robotics pioneers in the 1980s. These robots originally used manually created CAD floor plans, sonar sensing and wall-following variations to navigate buildings. The next generation, such as MobileRobots' PatrolBot and autonomous wheelchair, both introduced in 2004, have

989-481: The 2-hour challenge, Cataglyphis traversed over 2.6 km and returned five different samples to its starting position. The Seekur robot was the first commercially available robot to demonstrate MDARS-like capabilities for general use by airports, utility plants, corrections facilities and Homeland Security . The DARPA Grand Challenge and DARPA Urban Challenge have encouraged development of even more autonomous capabilities for ground vehicles, while this has been

1032-688: The Atlantic Championship from 1989 to 1992 and British Formula Renault in 1990. In 1991, Swift was purchased by Panasonic executive and former Indycar racing driver Hiro Matsushita , grandson of Panasonic founder Konosuke Matsushita , who renamed the firm Swift Engineering. Under his direction, Swift moved up to the CART World Series for 1997, with two cars entered by Newman/Haas Racing and driven by Michael Andretti and Christian Fittipaldi . In CART, Swifts got four wins and 24 podiums from 182 race entries. Tarso Marques

1075-485: The Automotive Development ADF. The car was considered a landmark design that rendered prior Formula Ford models obsolete. The DB-1 had the lowest aerodynamic drag of any Formula Ford at its release. Over 100 DB-1s were sold in the 18 months following the car's release. The car won 10 Formula Ford championships over the next 13 years. The closely related DB6 won an additional six championships with

1118-539: The ability to create their own laser-based maps of a building and to navigate open areas as well as corridors. Their control system changes its path on the fly if something blocks the way. At first, autonomous navigation was based on planar sensors, such as laser range-finders, that can only sense at one level. The most advanced systems now fuse information from various sensors for both localization (position) and navigation. Systems such as Motivity can rely on different sensors in different areas, depending upon which provides

1161-584: The charger. Another common proprioceptive sensor is for heat monitoring. Increased proprioception will be required for robots to work autonomously near people and in harsh environments. Common proprioceptive sensors include thermal, optical, and haptic sensing, as well as the Hall effect (electric). Exteroception is sensing things about the environment. Autonomous robots must have a range of environmental sensors to perform their task and stay out of trouble. The autonomous robot can recognize sensor failures and minimize

1204-442: The city of Kobe, Japan on July 21, 2018. It takes off and lands like a quadrotor but transitions to efficient fixed-wing forward flight without additional launch and recovery equipment, vastly reducing operational time and cost. It has a 4-meter wingspan, 2–3 hours of endurance, and a 1.5-kg payload. The Swift Crane  [ ja ; simple ] is a VTOL unmanned aerial vehicle designed and developed by Swift Engineering. It

1247-451: The current time. As these indoor techniques continue to develop, vacuuming robots will gain the ability to clean a specific user-specified room or a whole floor. Security robots will be able to cooperatively surround intruders and cut off exits. These advances also bring concomitant protections: robots' internal maps typically permit "forbidden areas" to be defined to prevent robots from autonomously entering certain regions. Outdoor autonomy

1290-613: The demonstrated goal for aerial robots since 1990 as part of the AUVSI International Aerial Robotics Competition . Between 2013 and 2017, TotalEnergies has held the ARGOS Challenge to develop the first autonomous robot for oil and gas production sites. The robots had to face adverse outdoor conditions such as rain, wind and extreme temperatures. Some significant current robots include: Lethal autonomous weapons (LAWs) are

1333-588: The development of the Sikorsky–Boeing SB-1 Defiant Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator (JMR TD), with the design and manufacturing of a significant portion of the airframe structure. In 2014, Swift started developing the Swift020 fully electric, fully autonomous VTOL UAS. This aircraft is runway-independent and transitions to horizontal flight through its autopilot software. the first UAS featuring X-blade technology, made its first fully autonomous flight demonstration in

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1376-733: The existing electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure it would only need minimal supervision and a single arm with low dexterity might be enough to enable this function if its visual systems had enough resolution. In November 2017, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors announced that companies would need to get a city permit in order to test these robots. In addition, the Board banned sidewalk delivery robots from making non-research deliveries. [REDACTED] Media related to Autonomous robots at Wikimedia Commons Formula Nippon Too Many Requests If you report this error to

1419-401: The final NASA Sample Return Robot Centennial Challenge in 2016, a rover, named Cataglyphis, successfully demonstrated fully autonomous navigation, decision-making, and sample detection, retrieval, and return capabilities. The rover relied on a fusion of measurements from inertial sensors , wheel encoders, Lidar, and camera for navigation and mapping, instead of using GPS or magnetometers. During

1462-418: The impact on the performance caused by failures. Some robotic lawn mowers will adapt their programming by detecting the speed in which grass grows as needed to maintain a perfectly cut lawn, and some vacuum cleaning robots have dirt detectors that sense how much dirt is being picked up and use this information to tell them to stay in one area longer. The next step in autonomous behavior is to actually perform

1505-643: The last one in 2008. The success of the car was considered one of the factors that resulted in the slow decline of Formula Ford in the US after 1984. In 1998, Swift became the sole supplier for the new spec regulation Toyota Atlantic Championship . In 2006, the Atlantic race series became a part of the Champ Car (formerly CART) organization and was renamed the Champ Car Atlantic Championship Powered by Mazda . Swift built

1548-574: The manner in which they moved. They were capable of phototaxis , the movement that occurs in response to light stimulus. The Mars rovers MER-A and MER-B (now known as Spirit rover and Opportunity rover ) found the position of the Sun and navigated their own routes to destinations, on the fly, by: The planned ESA Rover, Rosalind Franklin rover , is capable of vision based relative localisation and absolute localisation to autonomously navigate safe and efficient trajectories to targets by: During

1591-421: The most reliable data at the time, and can re-map a building autonomously. Rather than climb stairs, which requires highly specialized hardware, most indoor robots navigate handicapped-accessible areas, controlling elevators, and electronic doors. With such electronic access-control interfaces, robots can now freely navigate indoors. Autonomously climbing stairs and opening doors manually are topics of research at

1634-520: The robot is able to function correctly and not run into obstacles autonomously. Reinforcement learning has been used to control and plan the navigation of autonomous robots, specifically when a group of them operate in collaboration with each other. Researchers concerned with creating true artificial life are concerned not only with intelligent control, but further with the capacity of the robot to find its own resources through foraging (looking for food, which includes both energy and spare parts). This

1677-636: The roles and activities of autonomous robots. Elon Musk, a prominent business executive and billionaire has warned for years of the possible hazards and pitfalls of autonomous robots; however, his own company is one of the most prominent companies that is trying to devise new advanced technologies in this area. In 2021, a United Nations group of government experts, known as the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons – Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems , held

1720-686: The runway-independent Killer Bee blended wing UAV and its mobile launch/retrieval system in 2002. Northrop Grumman bought the Killer Bee UAV product line from Swift Engineering, and renamed it as the Northrop Grumman Bat in April 2009. It has been used primarily as an ISR gathering tool, and features a 10-ft wingspan with 30-lb payload capacity. In 2007 Swift Engineering produced the prototype Eclipse 400 single-engine jet aircraft under contract to Eclipse Aviation . The aircraft

1763-530: Was built in secrecy at NASA 's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia and first flown on 2 July 2007. Swift supplies high-strength, low-weight composite parts and assemblies to several aerospace industry customers. Engineering consultancy and designing and producing tooling for composite parts are further aspects of the business. Swift Engineering Inc. joined the Sikorsky-Boeing team in 2015 to support

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1806-414: Was restricted in the sense that a human gives the final command to attack – though there are exceptions with certain "defensive" systems. Tesla Robot and NVIDIA GR00T are humanoid robots. A delivery robot is an autonomous robot used for delivering goods. An Automatic Charging Robot, unveiled on July 27, 2022, is an arm-shaped automatic charging robot, charging an electric vehicle. It has been running

1849-479: Was the last driver to race a Swift chassis in CART in the 2000 season. In 2000, Swift Engineering started to provide vertically integrated, multi-disciplined product development services including design, development, engineering, testing, and rapid manufacturing of prototypes, demonstrators, and pre-production articles. In 2018, Swift Engineering formed a joint venture, Swift Xi Inc.  [ ja ; fr ] , with

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