Intelligent Robotics Group

Intelligent Robotics Group (IRG) is a division of the Ames Research Center, located at Moffett Federal Airfield in California's Silicon Valley.

Description
The 2009 Director of the Intelligent Robotics Group Terry Fong stated in an interview thatIRG conducts applied research in a wide range of areas, including computer vision, geospatial data systems, human–robot interaction, interactive 3-D visualization and robot software architecture. In 2009, we co-developed "Mars in Google Earth" and "Moon in Google Earth" with Google; we remotely operated one of our K10 planetary rovers to scout portions of Black Point Lava Flow (in Arizona); and we used our GigaPan robotic camera for science, education and journalism."

The Intelligent Robotics Group (IRG) explores extreme environments, remote locations, and uncharted worlds [and] conduct[s] applied research in computer vision, geospatial data systems, human-robot interaction, planetary mapping and robot software. (IRG brochure)