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HCI
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Improving the Mobility Performance of Autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicles by Adding the Ability to 'Sense/Feel' Their Local Envi
This paper explores how a ‘learning’ algorithm can be added to UGV’s by giving it the ability to test the terrain through ‘feeling’ using incorporated sensors, which woul...
Siddharth Odedra, Stephen D. Prior, Mehmet Karaman...
IBERAMIA
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Multi-robot Strategy for Rapidly Searching a Polygonal Environment
In this paper we address the problem of finding an object in a polygonal environment as quickly as possible on average, with a team of mobile robots that can sense the environment...
Alejandro Sarmiento, Rafael Murrieta-Cid, Seth Hut...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Topological Mapping Inspired by Techniques in DNA Sequence Alignment
Abstract— This paper introduces a method of building topological maps using sequences of images and the approximate string matching algorithm, which is commonly used in DNA seque...
Alan M. Zhang, Lindsay Kleeman, R. Andrew Russell
KES
2006
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Robust Positioning a Mobile Robot with Active Beacon Sensors
With the development of service robots and with the emerging concept of the ubiquitous world, localization of a mobile robot has become a popular issue. Even though several localiz...
JaeMu Yun, SungBu Kim, JangMyung Lee
IBERAMIA
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Fusing a Laser Range Finder and a Stereo Vision System to Detect Obstacles in 3D
A new method to detect 3D Obstacles using a stereo vision system and a 2D laser range finder is presented. Laser range finder measures distance to obstacles, but only on a plane ...
Leonardo Romero, Adrián Núñez...