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AROBOTS
2008
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13 years 9 months ago
Extending obstacle avoidance methods through multiple parameter-space transformations
Obstacle avoidance methods approach the problem of mobile robot autonomous navigation by steering the robot in real-time according to the most recent sensor readings, being suitab...
Jose-Luis Blanco, Javier Gonzalez, Juan-Antonio Fe...
ICPR
2004
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Estimation of Distance to Planar Surfaces and Type of Material with Infrared Sensors
This paper proposes a new technique for computing the distance to an unknown planar surface and, at the same time, estimating the material of the surface through the use of low-co...
Miguel Angel García, Agusti Solanas
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Experimental investigation on underwater acoustic ranging for small robotic fish
— GPS-free localization is essential for navigation and information tagging in small robotic fish-based aquatic mobile sensor networks. Constraints on size, weight, and onboard ...
Stephan Shatara, Xiaobo Tan, Ernest Mbemmo, Nathan...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
125views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
13 years 6 months ago
Mapping opaque and confined environments using proprioception
Mapping opaque and confined environments such as caves and pipes is a challenging problem for mobile robots because sensor information is severely limited to the immediate proximit...
Jacob Everist, Wei-Min Shen
RAS
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
Data association and occlusion handling for vision-based people tracking by mobile robots
This paper presents an approach for tracking multiple persons on a mobile robot with a combination of colour and thermal vision sensors, using several new techniques. First, an ad...
Grzegorz Cielniak, Tom Duckett, Achim J. Lilientha...