A key component of a mobile robot system is the ability to localize itself accurately and, simultaneously, to build a map of the environment. Most of the existing algorithms are b...
Abstract— We describe an autonomous robotic system capable of navigating through an office environment, opening doors along the way, and plugging itself into electrical outlets ...
Wim Meeussen, Melonee Wise, Stuart Glaser, Sachin ...
Motivated by questions in computer vision and sensor networks, Alpert et al. [3] introduced the following definitions. Given a graph G, an obstacle representation of G is a set of...
—We study the problem of actively searching for an object in a 3D environment under the constraint of a maximum search time, using a visually guided humanoid robot with twentysix...
Alexander Andreopoulos, Stephan Hasler, Heiko Wers...
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) needs to orient itself in its operating environment to fly autonomously. Localisation methods based on visual data are independent of erroneous GPS...