Numerous upcoming NASA misions need to land safely and precisely on planetary bodies. Accurate and robust state estimation during the descent phase is necessary. Towards this end,...
Stergios I. Roumeliotis, Andrew Edie Johnson, Jame...
In a typical dextrous manipulation task, a goal configuration is reached through a sequence of continuous motions. Most often, a motion plan is computed offline and subsequently...
This paper describes some initial steps towards sensor based path planning in an unknown static environment. The method is a based on a sensor-based incremental construction of a o...
Analysis and simulations are performed for a simplified model of a commercially available variant on the skateboard, known as the Snakeboard1 . Although the model exhibits basic g...
James P. Ostrowski, Andrew D. Lewis, Richard M. Mu...
Few concepts embody the goals of artificial intelligence as well as fully autonomous robots. Countless films and stories have been made that focus on a future filled with autonomo...