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RAS
2006
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13 years 9 months ago
Visual navigation and obstacle avoidance using a steering potential function
Humans have a remarkable ability to navigate using only vision, but mobile robots have not been nearly as successful. We propose a new approach to vision-guided local navigation, ...
Wesley H. Huang, Brett R. Fajen, Jonathan R. Fink,...
JFR
2008
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13 years 9 months ago
Monte Carlo localization in outdoor terrains using multilevel surface maps
We propose a novel combination of techniques for robustly estimating the position of a mobile robot in outdoor environments using range data. Our approach applies a particle filte...
Rainer Kümmerle, Rudolph Triebel, Patrick Pfa...
ICPADS
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
UDB: Using Directional Beacons for Localization in Underwater Sensor Networks
Underwater Sensor Networks (UWSN) are widely used in many applications, such as oceanic resource exploration, pollution monitoring, tsunami warnings and mine reconnaissance. In UW...
Hanjiang Luo, Yiyang Zhao, Zhongwen Guo, Siyuan Li...
ALGORITHMICA
2000
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13 years 9 months ago
Visibility-Based Planning of Sensor Control Strategies
Abstract. We consider the problem of planning sensor control strategies that enable a sensor to be automatically configured for robot tasks. In this paper we present robust and eff...
Amy J. Briggs, Bruce Randall Donald
AUTOMATICA
2010
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13 years 9 months ago
Continuous trajectory planning of mobile sensors for informative forecasting
This paper addresses planning of continuous paths for mobile sensors to reduce uncertainty in some quantities of interest in the future. The mutual information between the measure...
Han-Lim Choi, Jonathan P. How