—In many robotics applications, knowing the material properties around a robot is often critical for the robot’s successful performance. For example, in mobility, knowledge abo...
— Studies of human manipulation strategies suggest that pre-grasp object manipulation, such as rotation or sliding of the object to be grasped, can improve task performance by in...
Lillian Y. Chang, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Nancy S...
Abstract— Most large-scale public environments provide direction signs to facilitate the orientation for humans and to find their way to a goal location in the environment. Thus...
— Our objective is to find a small set of images that summarize a robot’s visual experience along a path. We present a novel on-line algorithm for this task. This algorithm is...
— This paper describes a methodology regarding an autonomous cruise control (ACC) of circulating multi-robot which is directly effective for solving the congestion regardless of ...
Service robots will have to accomplish more and more complex, open-ended tasks and regularly acquire new skills. In this work, we propose a new approach to generating plans for su...
Abstract— In this paper we present two task-allocation strategies for a multi-robot transportation system. The first strategy is based on a centralized planner that uses domain ...
Abstract— Scene recognition is a highly valuable perceptual ability for an indoor mobile robot, however, current approaches for scene recognition present a significant drop in p...
Pablo Espinace, Thomas Kollar, Alvaro Soto, Nichol...
— Image keypoints are broadly used in robotics for different purposes, ranging from recognition to 3D reconstruction, passing by SLAM and visual servoing. Robust keypoint matchin...
— In this paper we show that visual landmark generation and redetection is possible with a single feature per frame. The approach is based on the assumption that highly discrimin...