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AAAI
1998
13 years 10 months ago
The Interactive Museum Tour-Guide Robot
This paper describes the software architecture of an autonomous tour-guide/tutor robot. This robot was recently deployed in the "Deutsches Museum Bonn," were it guided h...
Wolfram Burgard, Armin B. Cremers, Dieter Fox, Dir...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
109views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Toward 30-gram Autonomous Indoor Aircraft: Vision-based Obstacle Avoidance and Altitude Control
Abstract— We aim at developing autonomous microflyers capable of navigating within houses or small built environments. The severe weight and energy constraints of indoor flying...
Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano
ICRA
2002
IEEE
158views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
14 years 1 months ago
Towards In-Situ Calibration of Gyro and Doppler Navigation Sensors for Precision Underwater Vehicle Navigation
Abstract This paper addresses a practical problem arising in the calibration of bottom-lock doppler sonar for the navigation of underwater robot vehicles. Employing a least-squares...
James C. Kinsey, Louis L. Whitcomb
ICRA
2009
IEEE
128views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Interactive segmentation for manipulation in unstructured environments
Abstract— To perform successful manipulation, robots depend on information about objects in their environment. In unstructured environments, such information cannot be given to t...
Jacqueline Kenney, Thomas Buckley, Oliver Brock
ICRA
2009
IEEE
138views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Which landmark is useful? Learning selection policies for navigation in unknown environments
Abstract— In general, a mobile robot that operates in unknown environments has to maintain a map and has to determine its own location given the map. This introduces significant...
Hauke Strasdat, Cyrill Stachniss, Wolfram Burgard