Recently, airborne video surveillance platforms have gained greater acceptance for use in a variety of DoD missions due to their utility, affordability and autonomy. While a varie...
Richard W. Cannata, Steven G. Blask, John A. Van W...
One of the most challenging aspects of concurrent mapping and localization (CML) is the problem of data association. Because of uncertainty in the origins of sensor measurements, i...
John J. Leonard, Paul M. Newman, Richard J. Rikosk...
— This paper defines and analyzes a simple robot with local sensors that moves in an unknown polygonal environment. The robot can execute wall-following motions and can traverse...
In this paper we introduce coverage maps as a new way of representing the environment of a mobile robot. Coverage maps store for each cell of a given grid a posterior about the am...
Work in simultaneous localisation and map-building ("SLAM") for mobile robots has focused on the simplified case in which a robot is considered to move in two dimensions...