The usability of mobile robots for surveillance, search and rescue missions can be significantly improved by intelligent functionalities decreasing the cognitive load on the opera...
— This paper introduces a signal-recognition based approach for detecting autonomous mobile robot immobilization on outdoor terrain. The technique utilizes a support vector machi...
Abstract: In November of 1998, an expedition from Carnegie Mellon University travelled to the Patriot Hills, Antarctica. The purpose of the expedition was to demonstrate autonomous...
Nicolas Vandapel, Stewart J. Moorehead, William Wh...
Contextual reasoning through graphical models such as Markov Random Fields often show superior performance against local classifiers in many domains. Unfortunately, this performanc...
Autonomous mobile robots need to adapt their behavior to the terrain over which they drive, and to predict the traversability of the terrain so that they can effectively plan thei...
Michael Shneier, Tommy Chang, Tsai Hong, William P...