Hotlinks are under construction. In the meantime you will have to poke around in my anonymous ftp directory. Look in the file Abstracts.txt to help you find what you are looking for. We review the current state of research in autonomous mobile robots and conclude that there is an inadequate basis for predicting the reliability and behavior of robots operating in unengineered environments. We present a new approach to the study of autonomous mobile robot performance based on formal statistical analysis of independently reproducible experiments conducted on real robots.
Simulators serve as models rather than experimental surrogates.
Conditional sequencing is a software technology for controlling autonomous spacecraft which can reduce the cost of mission-specific software development by two to three orders of magnitude while increasing mission reliability and enabling new classes of missions. Conditional sequencing is based on a fundamental change in the traditional spacecraft control model. Traditional linear control sequences are replaced by sophisticated control constructs analogous to those used by humans when giving instructions. Conditional sequences turn out to be easier to write than linear sequences, and they are reusable, resulting in lower development costs. Conditional sequencing also has constructs for contingency monitoring and recovery which increase mission reliability.