— Recently it has been shown that an inverse depth parametrization can improve the performance of real-time monocular EKF SLAM, permitting undelayed initialization of features at...
Javier Civera, Andrew J. Davison, J. M. M. Montiel
— In current conventional method, the sewer pipe inspection is undertaken using a cable-tethered robot with an on-board video camera system, completely, tele-operated by human op...
Amir Ali Forough Nassiraei, Yoshinori Kawamura, Al...
— Recent applications of robotics often demand two types of spatial awareness: 1) A fine-grained description of the robot’s immediate surroundings for obstacle avoidance and p...
David C. Moore, Albert S. Huang, Matthew Walter, E...
Serpentine robots are slender, multi-segmented vehicles designed to provide greater mobility than conventional mobile robots. Serpentine robots are ideally suited for urban search...
— Several recently-designed robots are able to scale steep surfaces using animal-inspired strategies for foot attachment and leg kinematics. These designs could be valuable for r...
Kathryn A. Daltorio, Timothy C. Witushynsky, Grego...