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SMC
2007
IEEE
125views Control Systems» more  SMC 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
A hierarchical strategy for learning of robot walking strategies in natural terrain environments
– In this paper, we present a hierarchical methodology that learns new walking gaits autonomously while operating in an uncharted environment, such as on the Mars planetary surfa...
Ayanna M. Howard, Lonnie T. Parker
JFR
2008
103views more  JFR 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Monte Carlo localization in outdoor terrains using multilevel surface maps
We propose a novel combination of techniques for robustly estimating the position of a mobile robot in outdoor environments using range data. Our approach applies a particle filte...
Rainer Kümmerle, Rudolph Triebel, Patrick Pfa...
ISRR
2005
Springer
140views Robotics» more  ISRR 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Tradeoffs Between Directed and Autonomous Driving on the Mars Exploration Rovers
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) have collected a great diversity of geological science results, thanks in large part to their surface mobility capabilities. The six wheel r...
Jeffrey J. Biesiadecki, Chris Leger, Mark W. Maimo...
ICRA
1994
IEEE
96views Robotics» more  ICRA 1994»
14 years 21 days ago
The CLAPPER: A Dual-Drive Mobile Robot with Internal Correction of Dead-Reckoning Errors
This paper presents a new approach to accurate and reliable dead-reckoning with mobile robots. The approach makes use of special properties of our recently developed Multi-Degreeo...
Johann Borenstein
ICRA
2002
IEEE
96views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
14 years 1 months ago
Mobility Enhancements to the Scout Robot Platform
When a distributed robotic system is assigned to perform reconnaissance or surveillance, restrictions inherent to the design of an individual robot limit the system’s performanc...
Andrew Drenner, Ian T. Burt, Tom Dahlin, Bradley K...