— A mobile robot operating in an urban environment has to navigate around obstacles and hazards. Though a significant amount of work has been done on detecting obstacles, not mu...
Many well-known existing image matching methods are based on local texture analysis, and consequently have difficulty handling low-textured 3D objects, such as those man-made buil...
—The vast majority of Autonomous Ground Vehicles in development today operate with GPS based navigation systems. While the accuracy of GPS systems has improved greatly over the p...
Steven J. Velat, Jaesang Lee, N. Johnson, Carl D. ...
Urban Search And Rescue (USAR) is a time critical task. Rescue teams have to explore a large terrain within a short amount of time in order to locate survivors after a disaster. O...
In this paper we present a system for topologically localizing a mobile robot using color histogram matching of omnidirectional images. The system is intended for use as a navigat...