Navigation through urban environments by visual perception and interaction

— In the Autonomous City Explorer (ACE) project a mobile robot is developed, which is capable of finding its way to a given destination in an unknown urban environment. An exemplary mission is to find the way from our institute to the Marienplatz, a public place in the center of Munich, without any prior knowledge or GPS information. Inspired by the behavior of humans in unknown environments, ACE

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: ICRA
• Authors: Quirin Mühlbauer, Stefan Sosnowski, Tingting Xu, Tianguang Zhang, Kolja Kühnlenz, Martin Buss
• Keywords: Autonomous City Explorer, ICRA 2009, Mobile Robot, Robotics, Unknown Urban Environment