— This paper describes the system architecture and core algorithms for a quadrotor helicopter that uses vision data to navigate an unknown, indoor, GPS-denied environment. Withou...
Spencer Ahrens, Daniel Levine, Gregory Andrews, Jo...
In this work, a Modified Vector Field Histogram (MVFH) has been developed to improve path planning and obstacle avoidance for a wheeled driven mobile robot. It permits the detecti...
— We present an approach to the problem of 3D map building in urban settings for service robots, using threedimensional laser range scans as the main data input. Our system is ba...
Rafael Valencia, Ernesto Homar Teniente Avil&eacut...
In this paper, we tackle the problem of unsupervised selection and posterior recognition of visual landmarks in images sequences acquired by an indoor mobile robot. This is a high...
The Army’s push towards developing highly flexible military teams that combine manned and unmanned units requires significant advances in the intelligence of the unmanned units ...
Talib S. Hussain, Daniel Cerys, David J. Montana, ...