Existing stormwater systems require significant investments to meet challenges imposed by climate change, rapid urbanization, and evolving regulations. There is an unprecedented opportunity to improve urban water quality by equipping stormwater systems with low-cost sensors and controllers. This will transform their operation from static to adaptive, permitting them to be instantly "redesigned" to respond to individual storms and evolving land uses.

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Abstract. A stereo vision based terrain traversability estimation method for offroad mobile robots is presented. The method models surrounding terrain using either sloped planes or a digital elevation model, based on the availability of suitable input data. This combination of two surface modeling techniques increases range and information content of the resulting terrain map.

Abstract-A highly flexible framework for visualization and sensor simulation in three-dimensional environments is presented. By allowing the insertion of freely programmable elements for online scene modification, a programmer can customize the framework to fulfill the exact simulation or visualization needs of an application of interest. Furthermore, the framework provides simple external interfaces so that multiple clients can be attached to it with ease. The frameworks' capabilities are demonstrated with two complex robotic applications that require both a high quality simulation of cameras and lasers scanners and an intuitive 3D visualization.