In future planetary exploration missions, rovers will be required to autonomously traverse challenging environments. Much of the previous work in robot motion planning cannot be s...
: Laser scanners, or laser radars (ladar), have been used for a number of years for mobile robot navigation and inspection tasks. Although previous scanners were sufficient for low...
John Hancock, Dirk Langer, Martial Hebert, Ryan Su...
An issue central to the navigation problem is memory. Traditional systems build symbolic maps of the world for navigational reference. Reactive methods, in contrast, eliminate or m...
We address the problem of minimum distance localization in environments that may contain self-similarities. A mobile robot is placed at an unknown location inside a ¢¤£ self-sim...
— For a coexisting and collaborative society that incorporates humans and robots, the detection, tracking, and recognition of human motion are indispensable techniques for a robo...