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ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Navigation using a spherical camera
A novel group theoretical method is proposed for autonomous navigation based on a spherical image camera. The environment of a robot is captured on a sphere. The three dimensional...
Raman Arora, Harish Parthasarathy
ISER
2004
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Autonomous Landing of an Unmanned Helicopter based on Vision and Inertial Sensing
In this paper, we propose an autonomous precision landing method for an unmanned helicopter based on an on-board visual navigation system consisting of a single pan-tilting camera,...
Torsten Merz, Simone Duranti, Gianpaolo Conte
ICRA
2007
IEEE
524views Robotics» more  ICRA 2007»
14 years 4 months ago
Concept and Design of A Fully Autonomous Sewer Pipe Inspection Mobile Robot "KANTARO"
— In current conventional method, the sewer pipe inspection is undertaken using a cable-tethered robot with an on-board video camera system, completely, tele-operated by human op...
Amir Ali Forough Nassiraei, Yoshinori Kawamura, Al...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
150views Robotics» more  ICRA 2006»
14 years 3 months ago
Navigation of Unmanned Marine Vehicles in Accordance with the Rules of the Road
Abstract— This paper is concerned with the in-field autonomous operation of unmanned marine vehicles in accordance with convention for safe and proper collision avoidance as pre...
Michael R. Benjamin, Joseph A. Curcio, John J. Leo...
SBRN
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Imitation Learning of an Intelligent Navigation System for Mobile Robots Using Reservoir Computing
The design of an autonomous navigation system for mobile robots can be a tough task. Noisy sensors, unstructured environments and unpredictability are among the problems which mus...
Eric A. Antonelo, Benjamin Schrauwen, Dirk Strooba...