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Clearpath Warthog

About

About Clearpath Warthog

Warthog is a large skid-steer research UGV designed for mud, snow, loose terrain and shallow water. Its high-torque electric drivetrain and low-pressure tyres carry substantial sensing, manipulation and field-equipment payloads across outdoor test environments.

The platform ships with an onboard computer, ROS support and accessible power and communication interfaces. Mounting surfaces accept lidar, cameras, GNSS, robot arms and custom equipment. Clearpath supplies autonomy packages, integration engineering and documentation for agriculture, mining, defence and environmental research.

Capabilities

Source-backed capabilities

  • Off-road navigation

    Research demonstration - 2026-02-13 - Completed autonomous off-road navigation tests on the physical UGV without interventions at locations where the baseline required manual help. - environment: partially observed off-road field routes

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  • Off-road navigation

    Research demonstration - 2025-09-30 - The paper studies kinodynamic motion planning across inconsistent world models for mobile robot navigation.

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  • Multi-terrain locomotion

    Claimed - Clearpath presents Warthog as a heavy-duty mobile base for rugged outdoor payload and field-autonomy research.

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  • Navigation and obstacle avoidance

    Claimed - Clearpath presents Warthog as a heavy-duty mobile base for rugged outdoor payload and field-autonomy research.

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Research

  • Temporally-Sampled Efficiently Adaptive State Lattices for Autonomous Ground Robot Navigation in Partially Observed Environments

    2026-02-13 - Research Publication - Physical Warthog trials and Warthog map data evaluate a regional-planner arbitration method designed to reduce unsafe route oscillation in partially observed terrain.

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  • Kinodynamic Motion Planning for Mobile Robot Navigation across Inconsistent World Models

    2025-09-30 - Research Publication - Off-road Warthog field experiments compare motion planners that account for inconsistent obstacle maps across successive planning cycles.

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  • Incorporating Stochastic Models of Controller Behavior into Kinodynamic Efficiently Adaptive State Lattices for Mobile Robot Motion Planning in Off-Road Environments

    2025-08-06 - Research Publication - Warthog field trials test stochastic controller models inside an off-road kinodynamic state-lattice planner under two perception pipelines.

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  • Robotic Exploration using Generalized Behavioral Entropy

    2024-02-15 - Research Publication - A ROS-Unity Warthog simulation compares behavioral entropy with Shannon and Renyi entropy for frontier-based robotic exploration.

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Resources

Media library

Official Clearpath Robotics Warthog product, manual, current datasheets and developer references with exact rugged-field imagery and verified video.