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3DIM
2003
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Automatic Model Refinement for 3D Reconstruction with Mobile Robots
Precise digital 3D models of indoor environments are needed in several applications, e.g., facility management, architecture, rescue and inspection robotics. This paper presents a...
Andreas Nüchter, Hartmut Surmann, Joachim Her...
AIPS
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Planning to Perceive: Exploiting Mobility for Robust Object Detection
Consider the task of a mobile robot autonomously navigating through an environment while detecting and mapping objects of interest using a noisy object detector. The robot must re...
Javier Vélez, Garrett Hemann, Albert S. Hua...
SASO
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A Space- and Time-Continuous Model of Self-Organizing Robot Swarms for Design Support
— Designing and implementing artificial self-organizing systems is a challenging task since they typically behave nonintuitive and no theoretical foundations exist. Predicting a...
Heiko Hamann, Heinz Wörn
IROS
2009
IEEE
195views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Appearance contrast for fast, robust trail-following
— We describe a framework for finding and tracking “trails” for autonomous outdoor robot navigation. Through a combination of visual cues and ladar-derived structural inform...
Christopher Rasmussen, Yan Lu, Mehmet Kocamaz
SAC
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Visual detection of novel terrain via two-class classification
Remote sensing of terrain characteristics is an important component for autonomous operation of mobile robots in natural terrain. Often this involves classification of terrain int...
Christopher A. Brooks, Karl Iagnemma