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ICML
1996
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Passive Distance Learning for Robot Navigation
Autonomous mobile robots need good models of their environment, sensors and actuators to navigate reliably and efficiently. While this information can be supplied by humans, or le...
Sven Koenig, Reid G. Simmons
GISCIENCE
2008
Springer
141views GIS» more  GISCIENCE 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Simplest Instructions: Finding Easy-to-Describe Routes for Navigation
Abstract. Current applications for wayfinding and navigation assistance usually calculate the route to a destination based on the shortest or fastest path from the origin. However...
Kai-Florian Richter, Matt Duckham
ASSETS
2007
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Accessible spaces: navigating through a marked environment with a camera phone
We demonstrate a system designed to assist a visually impaired individual while moving in an unfamiliar environment. Small and economical color markers are placed in key locations...
Kee-Yip Chan, Roberto Manduchi, James Coughlan
ASSETS
2006
ACM
14 years 20 days ago
Improving non-visual web access using context
To browse the Web, blind people have to use screen readers, which process pages sequentially, making browsing timeconsuming. We present a prototype system, CSurf, which provides a...
Jalal Mahmud, Yevgen Borodin, Dipanjan Das, I. V. ...
IROS
2006
IEEE
136views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
14 years 22 days ago
Panoramic View-Based Navigation in Outdoor Environments Based on Support Vector Learning
— This paper describes a panoramic view-based navigation in outdoor environments. We have been developing a two-phase navigation method. In the training phase, the robot acquires...
Hideo Morita, Michael Hild, Jun Miura, Yoshiaki Sh...