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,...
— This paper describes a panoramic view-based navigation in outdoor environments. We have been developing a two-phase navigation method. In the training phase, the robot acquires...
Hideo Morita, Michael Hild, Jun Miura, Yoshiaki Sh...
Location-based applications require a well-formed representation of spatial knowledge. Current location models can be classified into symbolic or geometric models. The former att...
This paper presents a real-time database modeling complex networks of intersecting roads and walkways in urban virtual environments. The database represents information about the ...
With the growing importance of systems containing arbitrary semistructured relationships, the need for supporting users searching in such repositories has grown. Currently support...