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Fishbone Model for Belt Object Deformation
— A modeling method for representing belt object deformation is proposed. Deformation of belt objects such as film circuit boards or flexible circuit boards must be estimated f...
Hidefumi Wakamatsu, Eiji Arai, Shinichi Hirai
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2007
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Map-Based Precision Vehicle Localization in Urban Environments
Abstract— Many urban navigation applications (e.g., autonomous navigation, driver assistance systems) can benefit greatly from localization with centimeter accuracy. Yet such ac...
Jesse Levinson, Michael Montemerlo, Sebastian Thru...
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2007
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BS-SLAM: Shaping the World
— This paper presents BS-SLAM, a simultaneous localization and mapping algorithm for use in unstructured environments that is effective regardless of whether features correspond ...
Luis Pedraza, Gamini Dissanayake, Jaime Valls Mir&...
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2007
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Learning omnidirectional path following using dimensionality reduction
Abstract— We consider the task of omnidirectional path following for a quadruped robot: moving a four-legged robot along any arbitrary path while turning in any arbitrary manner....
J. Zico Kolter, Andrew Y. Ng
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2007
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Active Policy Learning for Robot Planning and Exploration under Uncertainty
Abstract— This paper proposes a simulation-based active policy learning algorithm for finite-horizon, partially-observed sequential decision processes. The algorithm is tested i...
Ruben Martinez-Cantin, Nando de Freitas, Arnaud Do...
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Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping in Dynamic Environments (SLAMIDE) with Reversible Data Associa
Abstract— The conventional technique for dealing with dynamic objects in SLAM is to detect them and then either treat them as outliers [20][1] or track them separately using trad...
Charles Bibby, Ian D. Reid
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2007
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Spatially-Adaptive Learning Rates for Online Incremental SLAM
— Several recent algorithms have formulated the SLAM problem in terms of non-linear pose graph optimization. These algorithms are attractive because they offer lower computationa...
Edwin Olson, John J. Leonard, Seth J. Teller
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2007
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Design of a Bio-inspired Dynamical Vertical Climbing Robot
Abstract— This paper reviews a template for dynamical climbing originating in biology, explores its stability properties in a numerical model, and presents empirical data from a ...
Jonathan Clark, Daniel Goldman, Pei-Chun Lin, Gora...
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CRF-Matching: Conditional Random Fields for Feature-Based Scan Matching
— Matching laser range scans observed at different points in time is a crucial component of many robotics tasks, including mobile robot localization and mapping. While existing t...
Fabio T. Ramos, Dieter Fox, Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte
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An experimental study of exploiting multipath fading for robot communications
— A simple approach for mobile robots to exploit multipath fading in order to improve received radio signal strength (RSS), is presented. The strategy is to sample the RSS at dis...
Magnus Lindhé, Karl Henrik Johansson, Anton...