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Nariman
“This is Spot, and he is a robot dog. He can walk. He can run. He can dance, play
songs, and he can even take pictures or video. He can do everything! He was
designed by Boston Dynamics, and we have one of them in the Construction
Management Department at LSU. He’s part of my research. I am working to try
to make him fully autonomous because now he works under remote control.
I want him to be able to complete missions and actions by himself without an
operator. It’s a big challenge using the software services that we have to make it
autonomous. We have to understand how the software and mechanics work with
Spot. What he does will depend upon the mission that we assign for him, but he
will decide where to go and what to do! We will use route planning and mission
planning to have him autonomously navigate around campus. This will require a
lot of work. I want to be able to send him from my office to the department office
to complete a task and then to my advisor’s office to do something for them.
Then I want him to return back to my office at the PFT building.”
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