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ICRA
2008
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Detecting structural ambiguities and transitions during a guided tour
— Service robots designed for domestic settings need to navigate in an environment that they have to share with their users. Thus, they have to be able to report their current st...
Elin Anna Topp, Henrik I. Christensen
DAGSTUHL
1994
13 years 9 months ago
Competitive Strategies for Autonomous Systems
A strategy for working with incomplete information is called competitive if it solves each problem instance at a cost not exceeding the cost of an optimal solution (with full info...
Christian Icking, Rolf Klein
KI
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Shape-Based Robot Mapping
We present a novel geometric model for robot mapping suited for robots equipped with a laser range finder. The geometric representation is based on shape. Cyclic ordered sets of p...
Diedrich Wolter, Longin Jan Latecki, Rolf Lakä...
AROBOTS
2004
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13 years 7 months ago
An Architecture for Distributed Environment Sensing with Application to Robotic Cliff Exploration
Future planetary exploration missions will use cooperative robots to explore and sample rough terrain. To succeed robots will need to cooperatively acquire and share data. Here a c...
Vivek A. Sujan, Steven Dubowsky, Terrance L. Hunts...
ISMAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 28 days ago
Real-Time Localisation and Mapping with Wearable Active Vision
We present a general method for real-time, visiononly single-camera simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) — an algorithm which is applicable to the localisation of any ca...
Andrew J. Davison, Walterio W. Mayol-Cuevas, David...