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AGENTS
2001
Springer
14 years 5 days ago
Terrain coverage with ant robots: a simulation study
In this paper, we study a simple means for coordinating teams of simple agents. In particular, we study ant robots and how they can cover terrain once or repeatedly by leaving mar...
Sven Koenig, Yaxin Liu
MVA
2007
281views Computer Vision» more  MVA 2007»
13 years 9 months ago
Evaluation of Stereo Matching Systems for Real World Applications Using Structured Light for Ground Truth Estimation
In this paper we present an evaluation method for stereo matching systems and sensors especially for real world indoor applications. We estimate ground truth reference images by i...
Martin Humenberger, Daniel Hartermann, Wilfried Ku...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
152views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
14 years 18 days ago
Mobile Robot Self-Localization in Large-Scale Environments
— This paper presents a new approach for the absolute self-localization of a mobile robot in structured large-scale environments. The requirements with regard to both, the necess...
Axel Lankenau, Thomas Röfer
JAIR
2008
107views more  JAIR 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Exploiting Subgraph Structure in Multi-Robot Path Planning
Multi-robot path planning is difficult due to the combinatorial explosion of the search space with every new robot added. Complete search of the combined state-space soon intracta...
Malcolm Ross Kinsella Ryan
3DIM
2003
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Automatic Model Refinement for 3D Reconstruction with Mobile Robots
Precise digital 3D models of indoor environments are needed in several applications, e.g., facility management, architecture, rescue and inspection robotics. This paper presents a...
Andreas Nüchter, Hartmut Surmann, Joachim Her...