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AGENTS
1997
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Learning View Graphs for Robot Navigation
Abstract. We present a purely vision-based scheme for learning a topological representation of an open environment. The system represents selected places by local views of the surr...
Matthias O. Franz, Bernhard Schölkopf, Philip...
AAAI
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Educational Robotics in Brooklyn
We describe a number of efforts to engage university students with robotics through teaching and outreach. Teaching runs the gamut from undergraduate introductory computer science...
Elizabeth Sklar, Simon Parsons, M. Q. Azhar, Valer...
AAAI
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Integrating Topological and Metric Maps for Mobile Robot Navigation: A Statistical Approach
The problem of concurrent mapping and localization has received considerable attention in the mobile robotics community. Existing approachescan largely be grouped into two distinc...
Sebastian Thrun, Jens-Steffen Gutmann, Dieter Fox,...
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Pairwise Optimal Discrete Coverage Control for Gossiping Robots
Abstract-- We propose distributed algorithms to automatically deploy a group of robotic agents and provide coverage of a discretized environment represented by a graph. The classic...
Joseph W. Durham, Ruggero Carli, Francesco Bullo
ATAL
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Accurate and Flexible Simulation for Dynamic, Vision-Centric Robot
As robots become more complex by incorporating dynamic stability or greater mechanical degrees of freedom, the difficulty of developing control algorithms directly on the robot in...
Jared Go, Brett Browning, Manuela M. Veloso