— High-gain PID position control, which is widely used with robots having complex dynamics, involves some risks in cases of abnormal events, such as unexpected environment contac...
- Personal robots, which are expected to become popular in the future, are required to be active in joint work and community life with humans. Such robots must have no bad physical...
— This paper formalizes and proposes an algorithm to compute coverage diameters of polygons in 2D. Roughly speaking, the coverage diameter of a polygon is the longest possible di...
— There is much to gain from providing walking machines with passive dynamics, e.g. by including compliant elements in the structure. These elements can offer interesting propert...
– A sensor platform has been developed that is capable of both aerial and terrestrial locomotion, as well as transitioning between the two. The Morphing Micro Air-Land Vehicle (M...
Kevin Jones, Frank Boria, Richard J. Bachmann, Rav...
— Simulation is becoming an increasingly important aspect of mobile robots. As we are better able to simulate the real world, we can usefully perform more research in simulated e...
— We propose a vision-based inertial system that overcomes the problems associated with slow update rates in navigation systems based on high-resolution cameras. Due to bandwidth...
Abstract— This paper presents an approach to create topological maps from geometric maps obtained with a mobile robot in an indoor-environment using range data. Our approach util...
— We present in this article an original manner to estimate the trajectory of a vehicle running in urban-like areas. The method consists in extracting then tracking features (poi...