In January, 2004, the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission landed two rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, on the surface of Mars. Several autonomous navigation capabilities were employ...
Mark W. Maimone, Andrew Edie Johnson, Yang Cheng, ...
In recent years, wide bandwidth and low cost wireless LAN (WLAN) technology has emerged as a competitive choice for high speed wireless Internet access. To support the Internet mo...
Wei Wu, Nilanjan Banerjee, Kalyan Basu, Sajal K. D...
Often remote investigations use autonomous agents to observe an environment on behalf of absent scientists. Predictive exploration improves these systems’ efficiency with onboa...
— While robot mapping has seen massive strides , higher level abstractions in map representation are still not widespread. Maps containing semantic concepts such as objects and l...
The problem of using pictures of objects captured under ideal imaging conditions (here referred to as in vitro) to recognize objects in natural environments (in situ) is an emergi...