— The field of robotics is on a growth curve, with most of the growth expected in the areas of personal and service robots. As robots become more prevalent in chaotic home and in...
Navigation and application functionality of mobile robots rely on their collision-avoiding capabilities, also known as local navigation. We present the mobile robot ARTOS (Autonomo...
Christopher Armbrust, Jan Koch, Ulf Stocker, Karst...
— Accurate and fast control of wheel speeds in the presence of noise and nonlinearities is one of the crucial requirements for building fast mobile robots, as they are required i...
Geometric reconstruction of the environment from images is critical in autonomous mapping and robot navigation. Geometric reconstruction involves feature tracking, i.e., locating ...
— Most mobile robots in existence today have large, heavy, statically stable bases. To enable manipulation, actuated arms and effectors are attached to the base providing limited...
Bryan J. Thibodeau, Patrick Deegan, Roderic A. Gru...