This guide provides an overview of maintaining public roadways, examples of specific maintenance procedures, and links to additional resources that should be considered in developing local practices. … [Read more...] about Roadway Maintenance Guide
Highway Maintenance
Dynamic Modeling of Wheeled Mobile Robots for High Load Applications
This paper examines dynamic modeling of differentially and conventionally steered Wheeled Mobile Robots (WMRs) for high load applications such as highway maintenance and construction. Dynamic models … [Read more...] about Dynamic Modeling of Wheeled Mobile Robots for High Load Applications
Control System Development for Tethered Mobile Robot for Automating Highway Maintenance Operation
A new concept, the use of a self-propelled mobile robot working in close proximity to a support vehicle for purposes of power, materials, etc., has been proposed for highway maintenance operations … [Read more...] about Control System Development for Tethered Mobile Robot for Automating Highway Maintenance Operation
Autonomous Shadow Vehicle Project: Phase I
The subject of this report is the research performed to determine the feasibility of designing and constructing a prototype autonomous Shadow Vehicle that follows a Lead Maintenance Vehicle for use in … [Read more...] about Autonomous Shadow Vehicle Project: Phase I
Description and Operational Instructions of the Demo TMRR
The Tethered Mobile Routing Robot (TMRR) has been developed as a general crack sealing machine that will sense, rout, and seal both longitudinal and transverse cracks in a given workspace located … [Read more...] about Description and Operational Instructions of the Demo TMRR
Applications of Telerobotics to Highway Maintenance
This report covers telerobotics studies from the perspective of highway maintenance automation conducted in the UC Davis Robotics Research Laboratory over the last fourteen months. Here we document … [Read more...] about Applications of Telerobotics to Highway Maintenance