— We report our first experiences with Leaving Flatland, an exploratory project that studies the key challenges of closing the loop between autonomous perception and action on c...
Benoit Morisset, Radu Bogdan Rusu, Aravind Sundare...
— To realize adaptive and robust manipulation, a robot should have several sensing modalities and coordinate their outputs to achieve the given task based on underlying constrain...
Abstract: In November of 1998, an expedition from Carnegie Mellon University travelled to the Patriot Hills, Antarctica. The purpose of the expedition was to demonstrate autonomous...
Nicolas Vandapel, Stewart J. Moorehead, William Wh...
— We investigate a technique that uses an embedded network deployed pervasively throughout an environment to aid robots in navigation. First, we show that the path computed by th...
Keith J. O'Hara, Victor Bigio, Shaun Whitt, Daniel...
An autonomous mobile robot must be able to combine uncertain sensory information with prior knowledge of the world. Moreover, these operations have to be performed fast enough for...