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ICRA
2007
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Locally Computable Navigation Functions for Sphere Worlds
Abstract— In this paper we present a new Navigation Function for a sphere world that can be computed locally with limited knowledge of the environment. By requiring smooth and no...
Grigoris Lionis, Xanthi Papageorgiou, Kostas J. Ky...
FSR
2007
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Experiments in Navigation and Mapping with a Hovering AUV
This paper describes the basic control, navigation, and mapping methods and experiments a hovering autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) designed to explore flooded cenotes in Mexi...
George Kantor, Nathaniel Fairfield, Dominic Jonak,...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Building Multi-Level Models: From Landscapes to Landmarks
In this paper a complete strategy for scene modelling from sensory data acquired in a natural environment is defined. This strategy is applied to outdoor mobile robotics and goes f...
Rafael Murrieta-Cid, Carlos Parra, Michel Devy, Be...
ICARCV
2008
IEEE
170views Robotics» more  ICARCV 2008»
14 years 3 months ago
A fast Monte Carlo algorithm for collision probability estimation
—In order to navigate safely, it is important to detect and to react to a potentially dangerous situation. Such a situation can be underlined by a judicious use of the locations ...
Alain Lambert, Dominique Gruyer, Guillaume Saint-P...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Switched UAV-UGV Cooperation Scheme for Target Detection
— We develop a switched cooperative control scheme, to coordinate groups of ground and aerial vehicles for the purpose of locating a moving target in a given area. We do so by st...
Herbert G. Tanner