The usability of mobile robots for surveillance, search and rescue missions can be significantly improved by intelligent functionalities decreasing the cognitive load on the opera...
Navigation and application functionality of mobile robots rely on their collision-avoiding capabilities, also known as local navigation. We present the mobile robot ARTOS (Autonomo...
Christopher Armbrust, Jan Koch, Ulf Stocker, Karst...
An ever-growing infrastructure, including existing and newly built power plants, as well as a rising environmental awareness in society call for inspection and maintenance systems...
Many autonomous systems such as mobile robots, UAVs or spacecraft, have limited resource capacities and move in dynamic environments. Performing on-board mission planning and exec...
Learning robot-environment interaction with echo state networks (ESNs) is presented in this paper. ESNs are asked to bootstrap a robot’s control policy from human teacher’s dem...