Abstract— In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in autonomous navigation for lightweight flying robots. With regard to self-localization flying robots have sev...
— A key challenge for autonomous navigation in cluttered outdoor environments is the reliable discrimination between obstacles that must be avoided at all costs, and lesser obsta...
David M. Bradley, Ranjith Unnikrishnan, James Bagn...
Abstract--We are developing an autonomous mobile robotic system to emulate six degree of freedom relative spacecraft motion during proximity operations. A mobile omni-directional b...
Xiaoli Bai, Jeremy J. Davis, James Doebbler, James...
— It is advantageous for colony robots to be autonomous and self-sufficient. This requires them to perform their duties while maintaining enough energy to operate. Previously, we...
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...