Autonomous mobile robots form an important research topic in the field of robotics due to their near-term applicability in the real world as domestic service robots. These robots ...
Eric A. Antonelo, Benjamin Schrauwen, Jan M. Van C...
— This video presents the Autonomous City Explorer (ACE) project. Its goal was to create a robot capable of navigating unknown urban environments without the use of GPS data or p...
Andrea Maria Bauer, Klaas Klasing, Tingting Xu, St...
If a smooth, closed, and embedded curve is deformed along its normal vector field at a rate proportional to its curvature, it shrinks to a circular point. This curve evolution is ...
Stephen L. Smith, Mireille E. Broucke, Bruce A. Fr...
This paper presents an approach to create POMDP models, used for decision making by an autonomous service robot, from background knowledge. This allows the power of POMDP decision ...
The Kiva warehouse management system creates a new paradigm for pick-pack-and-ship warehouses that significantly improves worker productivity. The Kiva system uses movable storag...