Robust navigation through rocky terrain by small mobile robots is important for maximizing science return from upcoming missions to Mars. We are addressing this problem at multipl...
Richard Volpe, Tara A. Estlin, Sharon L. Laubach, ...
This article presents vision functions needed on a mobile robot to deal with landmark-based navigation in buildings. Landmarks are planar, quadrangular surfaces, which must be dis...
People often use direct physical contact to guide a person to a desired location (e.g., leading a child by the hand) or to adjust a person’s posture for a task (e.g., a dance in...
— Autonomous navigation of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can be achieved with a reactive system which allows the robot to overcome all the unexpected changes in its environmen...
— This paper addresses the problem of registering the hexapedal robot, RHex, relative to a known set of beacons, by real-time visual servoing. A suitably constructed navigation f...