This paper considers trajectory planning problems for autonomous robots in information gathering tasks. The objective of the planning is to maximize the information gathered withi...
Cindy Leung, Shoudong Huang, Ngai Ming Kwok, Gamin...
Exact cellular decompositions represent a robot's free space by dividing it into regions with simple structure such that the sum of the regions fills the free space. These de...
Ercan U. Acar, Howie Choset, Alfred A. Rizzi, Pras...
— Through their ability to rapidly acquire aerial imagery, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have the potential to aid target search tasks. Many of the core algorithms which are us...
Sonia Waharte, Andrew Colquhoun Symington, Niki Tr...
Probabilistic roadmap (PRM) planners have been successful in path planning of robots with many degrees of freedom, but narrow passages in a robot’s configuration space create s...
David Hsu, Tingting Jiang, John H. Reif, Zheng Sun
—The Overbot is one of the original DARPA Grand Challenge vehicles now being used as a platform for autonomous vehicle research. The vehicle, equipped with a complete actuator an...