An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) needs to orient itself in its operating environment to fly autonomously. Localisation methods based on visual data are independent of erroneous GPS...
The availability of efficient mapping systems to produce accurate representations of initially unknown environments is recognized as one of the main requirements for autonomous mo...
We must give some form of a command to robots in order to have the robots do a complex task. An initial instruction is required even if they do their tasks autonomously. We theref...
Jun Kato, Daisuke Sakamoto, Masahiko Inami, Takeo ...
— We explore the interconnection between search and action in the context of mobile robotics. The task of searching for an object and then performing some action with that object...
Geoffrey Hollinger, Dave Ferguson, Siddhartha Srin...
— For a mobile robot that interacts with humans such as a home assistant or a tour guide robot, tracking a particular person among multiple persons is a fundamental, yet challeng...