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RAS
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
A portable, autonomous, urban reconnaissance robot
Portable mobile robots, in the size class of 20 kg or less, could be extremely valuable as autonomous reconnaissance platforms in urban hostage situations and disaster relief. We ...
Larry Matthies, Yalin Xiong, Robert W. Hogg, David...
MVA
2007
162views Computer Vision» more  MVA 2007»
13 years 7 months ago
Location-Based Tracking of Moving Obstacles from a Mobile Robot
Tracking moving obstacles from a moving platform is a useful skill for the coming generation of mobile robot. The methods used in existing moving objects tracking that operated fr...
Thatsaphan Suwannathat, Jun-ichi Imai, Masahide Ka...
IJRR
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Design and Kinematic Modeling of Constant Curvature Continuum Robots: A Review
Continuum robotics has rapidly become a rich and diverse area of research, with many designs and applications demonstrated. Despite this diversity in form and purpose, there exist...
Robert J. Webster III, Bryan A. Jones
ICRA
2009
IEEE
122views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
13 years 5 months ago
Utilizing reflection properties of surfaces to improve mobile robot localization
Abstract-- A main difficulty that arises in the context of probabilistic localization is the design of an appropriate observation model, i.e., determining the likelihood of a senso...
Maren Bennewitz, Cyrill Stachniss, Sven Behnke, Wo...
AMIRE
2005
Springer
198views Robotics» more  AMIRE 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Extending the Temporal Horizon of Autonomous Robots
Abstract. We introduce mathematically rigorous metrics on agent experiences having various temporal horizons. Sensorimotor variables accessible to the agent are treated as informat...
Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Naeem Assif Mirza, Kerstin...