One of the challenges in pervasive computing is communication between a mobile user's terminal and the continuously changing local environment. Bluetooth is one potential opt...
We envision a future in which clouds of microcomputers can be sprayed in an environment to provide, by spontaneously networking with each other, an endlessly range of futuristic a...
Franco Zambonelli, Marie Pierre Gleizes, Marco Mam...
—Mobile robots that interact with humans in an intuitive way must be able to follow directions provided by humans in unconstrained natural language. In this work we investigate h...
Context–Aware Composition is a technique to overcome the complexity of wireless discovery, device selection, and establishing connections to other computers in an environment wh...
Kent Lyons, Roy Want, David Munday, Jiasheng He, S...
— Visual localization and mapping for mobile robots has been achieved with a large variety of methods. Among them, topological navigation using vision has the advantage of offeri...