—The simultaneous localization and map building (SLAM) problem asks if it is possible for an autonomous vehicle to start in an unknown location in an unknown environment and then...
Stefan B. Williams, Gamini Dissanayake, Hugh F. Du...
In June and July 1997, Nomad, a planetary-relevant mobile robot, traversed more than 220 kilometers across the barren Atacama Desert in Chile, exploring a landscape analogous to t...
Deepak Bapna, Eric Rollins, John Murphy, Mark W. M...
A robot’s ability to assist humans in a variety of tasks, e.g. in search and rescue or in a household, heavily depends on the robot’s reliable recognition of the objects in th...
In this paper, we propose a new, hierarchical approach to landmark selection for simultaneous robot localization and mapping based on visual sensors: a biologically motivated atte...
Simone Frintrop, Patric Jensfelt, Henrik I. Christ...
For the interpretation of a visual scene, it is important for a robotic system to pay attention to the objects in the scene and segment them from their background. We focus on the...