– In this paper, we describe a robot that interacts with humans in a crowded conference environment. The robot detects faces, determines the shirt color of onlooking conference a...
Geoffrey A. Hollinger, Yavor Georgiev, Anthony Man...
Stereo camera is a very important sensor for mobile robot localization and mapping. Its consecutive images can be used to estimate the location of the robot with respect to its en...
In conversation, people often use spatial relationships to describe their environment, e.g., “There is a desk in front of me and a doorway behind it”, and to issue directives,...
Marjorie Skubic, Dennis Perzanowski, Alan C. Schul...
This paper proposes a hybrid approach to the problem of collision avoidance for indoor mobile robots. The DWA (short for: model-based dynamic window approach) integrates sensor dat...
Dieter Fox, Wolfram Burgard, Sebastian Thrun, Armi...
Applications of learning to autonomous agents (simulated or real) have often been restricted to learning a mapping from perceived state of the world to the next action to take. Of...