Probabilistic roadmap (PRM) planners have been successful in path planning of robots with many degrees of freedom, but narrow passages in a robot’s configuration space create s...
David Hsu, Tingting Jiang, John H. Reif, Zheng Sun
— In recent years, there has been an increasing interest within the robotics community in investigating whether Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology can be utilized ...
Dominik Joho, Christian Plagemann, Wolfram Burgard
Abstract-- A main difficulty that arises in the context of probabilistic localization is the design of an appropriate observation model, i.e., determining the likelihood of a senso...
Maren Bennewitz, Cyrill Stachniss, Sven Behnke, Wo...
— We study a fully distributed, reactive algorithm for deployment and maintenance of a mobile communication backbone that provides an area around a network gateway with wireless ...
Nikolaus Correll, Jonathan Bachrach, Daniel Vicker...
This paper describes maximum likelihood estimation techniques for performing rover localization in natural terrain by matching range maps. An occupancy map of the local terrain is...