— An active cannula is a medical device composed of thin, pre-curved, telescoping tubes that may enable many new surgical procedures. Planning optimal motions for these devices i...
We present a novel geometric model for robot mapping suited for robots equipped with a laser range finder. The geometric representation is based on shape. Cyclic ordered sets of p...
Diedrich Wolter, Longin Jan Latecki, Rolf Lakä...
— We propose a vision-based inertial system that overcomes the problems associated with slow update rates in navigation systems based on high-resolution cameras. Due to bandwidth...
Acquiring models of the environment belongs to the fundamental tasks of mobile robots. In the past, several researchers have focused on the problem of simultaneous localization an...
We describe a novel method whereby a particle filter is used to create a potential field for robot control without prior clustering. We show an application of this technique to ...