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ICRA
2005
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Toward 30-gram Autonomous Indoor Aircraft: Vision-based Obstacle Avoidance and Altitude Control
Abstract— We aim at developing autonomous microflyers capable of navigating within houses or small built environments. The severe weight and energy constraints of indoor flying...
Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano
ICRA
2005
IEEE
159views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Omnidirectional Depth Computation from a Single Image
— Omnidirectional cameras offer a much wider field of view than the perspective ones and alleviate the problems due to occlusions. However, both types of cameras suffer from the...
Radu Orghidan, El Mustapha Mouaddib, Joaquim Salvi
ICRA
2005
IEEE
148views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Developing a Modular Active Spherical Vision System
- This paper introduces a modular, real-time, omnidirectional, active vision system, as well as a constructed prototype. By combining omnidirectional and active pan-tilt cameras, a...
Nicholas D. Jankovic, Michael D. Naish
RAS
2002
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13 years 8 months ago
Exploration method using harmonic functions
Harmonic functions provide optimal potential maps for robot navigation in a previously explored static environment. Here we investigate the performance of an algorithm for explora...
Edson Prestes e Silva Jr., Paulo Martins Engel, Ma...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
265views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
A generalization of the metric-based Iterative Closest Point technique for 3D scan matching
— Scan matching techniques have been widely used to compute the displacement of robots. This estimate is part of many algorithms addressing navigation and mapping. This paper add...
Leopoldo Armesto, Javier Minguez, Luis Montesano