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HRI
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Robots asking for directions: the willingness of passers-by to support robots
—This paper reports about a human-robot interaction field trial conducted with the autonomous mobile robot ACE (Autonomous City Explorer) in a public place, where the ACE robot ...
Astrid Weiss, Judith Igelsböck, Manfred Tsche...
ESWS
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Web Explanations for Semantic Heterogeneity Discovery
Managing semantic heterogeneity is a complex task. One solution involves matching like terms to each other. We view Match as an operator that takes two graph-like structures (e.g....
Pavel Shvaiko, Fausto Giunchiglia, Paulo Pinheiro ...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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13 years 6 months ago
Hierarchical optimization on manifolds for online 2D and 3D mapping
Abstract— In this paper, we present a new hierarchical optimization solution to the graph-based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem. During online mapping, the a...
Giorgio Grisetti, Rainer Kümmerle, Cyrill Sta...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
142views Robotics» more  ICRA 2003»
14 years 28 days ago
Airborne simultaneous localisation and map building
— This paper presents results of the application of simultaneous localisation and map building (SLAM) for an uninhibited aerial vehicle (UAV). Single vision camera and inertial m...
Jong-Hyuk Kim, Salah Sukkarieh
ICRA
2005
IEEE
106views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Towards Topological Exploration of Abandoned Mines
— The need for reliable maps of subterranean spaces too hazardous for humans to occupy has motivated the use of robotic technology as mapping tools. As such, we present a systemi...
Aaron Morris, David Silver, David I. Ferguson, Sco...