This article investigates the prerequisites for a global exploration strategy in an unknown environment on a virtual disaster site. Assume that a robot equipped with a laser range...
Arnoud Visser, Xingrui-Ji, Merlijn van Ittersum, L...
—The simultaneous localization and map building (SLAM) problem asks if it is possible for an autonomous vehicle to start in an unknown location in an unknown environment and then...
Stefan B. Williams, Gamini Dissanayake, Hugh F. Du...
Abstract— Humanoids have recently become a popular research platform in the robotics community. Such robots offer various fields for new applications. However, they have several...
Cyrill Stachniss, Maren Bennewitz, Giorgio Grisett...
Visual attention regions are useful for many applications in the field of computer vision and robotics. Here, we introduce an application to simultaneous robot localization and ma...
Simone Frintrop, Patric Jensfelt, Henrik I. Christ...
Many successful indoor mapping techniques employ frame-to-frame matching of laser scans to produce detailed local maps, as well as closing large loops. In this paper, we propose a ...