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SMC
2010
IEEE
198views Control Systems» more  SMC 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Fast tracking of natural textures using fractal snakes
Abstract — The natural environments that robotic applications often encounter can present difficult problems for imagebased task execution. Prior efforts have used both grayscale...
Christopher E. Smith
CRV
2009
IEEE
206views Robotics» more  CRV 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Unsupervised Learning of Terrain Appearance for Automated Coral Reef Exploration
We describe a navigation and coverage system based on unsupervised learning driven by visual input. Our objective is to allow a robot to remain continuously moving above a terrain...
Philippe Giguère, Gregory Dudek, Chris Prah...
IROS
2009
IEEE
195views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Appearance contrast for fast, robust trail-following
— We describe a framework for finding and tracking “trails” for autonomous outdoor robot navigation. Through a combination of visual cues and ladar-derived structural inform...
Christopher Rasmussen, Yan Lu, Mehmet Kocamaz
ICRA
2002
IEEE
161views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
14 years 13 days ago
Mosaicing Large Cyclic Environments for Visual Navigation in Autonomous Vehicles
Mobile robot localization from large-scale appearance mosaics has been showing increasing promise as a low-cost, high-performance and infrastructure-free solution to vehicle guida...
Ranjith Unnikrishnan, Alonzo Kelly
RAS
2007
138views more  RAS 2007»
13 years 7 months ago
Image-based robot navigation from an image memory
This paper addresses the problem of vision-based navigation and proposes an original control law to perform such navigation. The overall approach is based on an appearance-based r...
Anthony Remazeilles, François Chaumette