— Mobile robots have to detect and handle a variety of potential hazards to navigate autonomously. We present a real-time stereo vision based mapping algorithm for identifying an...
— This paper addresses the problem of vegetation detection from laser measurements. The ability to detect vegetation is important for robots operating outdoors, since it enables ...
— Optical flow sensing techniques are promising for obstacle avoidance, distance regulation, and moving target tracking, particularly for small mobile robots with limited power ...
Abstract— We report on our experiences regarding the acquisition of hybrid Semantic 3D Object Maps for indoor household environments, in particular kitchens, out of sensed 3D poi...
Radu Bogdan Rusu, Zoltan Csaba Marton, Nico Blodow...
— Robotic microhandling is a promising way to assemble microcomponents in order to manufacture new generation of Hybrid Micro ElectroMechanical Systems (HMEMS). However, at the s...
— An active cannula is a medical device composed of thin, pre-curved, telescoping tubes that may enable many new surgical procedures. Planning optimal motions for these devices i...
—This work presents a methodology to generate dynamically stable whole-body motions for a humanoid robot, which are converted from human motion capture data. The methodology cons...
Seungsu Kim, ChangHwan Kim, Bum-Jae You, Sangrok O...
—A collective of robots can together complete a task that is beyond the capabilities of any of its individual robots. One property of a robotic collective that allows it to compl...
— This paper presents a decentralized planning method for generating dynamic whole body motions of multilink robots including humanoids. First, a robotic system will be modeled a...
Yuichi Tazaki, Hisashi Sugiura, Herbert Janssen, C...