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SIMPAR
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
Exploration Strategies for a Robot with a Continously Rotating 3D Scanner
To benchmark the efficiency of exploration strategies one has to use robot simulators. In an exploration task, the robot faces an unknown environment. Of course one could test the ...
Elena Digor, Andreas Birk, Andreas Nüchter
IJRR
2000
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13 years 7 months ago
Sensor-Based Exploration: Incremental Construction of the Hierarchical Generalized Voronoi Graph
This paper prescribes an incremental procedure to construct roadmaps of unknown environments. Recall that a roadmap is a geometric structure that a robot uses to plan a path betwe...
Howie Choset, Sean Walker, Kunnayut Eiamsa-Ard, Jo...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
HybridExploration: A distributed approach to terrain exploration using mobile and fixed sensor nodes
— When an emergency occurs within a building, it may be initially safer to send autonomous mobile nodes, instead of human responders, to explore the area and identify hazards and...
Ettore Ferranti, Niki Trigoni, Mark Levene
ATAL
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Multiagent Bidding Mechanisms for Robot Qualitative Navigation
This paper explores the use of bidding mechanisms to coordinate the actions requested by a group of agents in charge of achieving the task of guiding a robot towards a specified t...
Carles Sierra, Ramon López de Mántar...
JIRS
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
Exploring the Effect of Obscurants on Safe Landing Zone Identification
Currently, robotic rotorcraft determine landing zones based on visual cues or predetermined GPS waypoints. Missions such as perch-and-stare or cargo delivery demand the ability to ...
Keith W. Sevcik, Noah Kuntz, Paul Y. Oh