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ICRA
2010
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
The Office Marathon: Robust navigation in an indoor office environment
Abstract-- This paper describes a navigation system that allowed a robot to complete 26.2 miles of autonomous navigation in a real office environment. We present the methods requir...
Eitan Marder-Eppstein, Eric Berger, Tully Foote, B...
IJRR
2010
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13 years 10 months ago
Learning from Demonstration for Autonomous Navigation in Complex Unstructured Terrain
Rough terrain autonomous navigation continues to pose a challenge to the robotics community. Robust navigation by a mobile robot depends not only on the individual performance of ...
David Silver, J. Andrew Bagnell, Anthony Stentz
JACIC
2007
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14 years 6 days ago
A Modular, Hybrid System Architecture for Autonomous, Urban Driving
Autonomous navigation in urban environments inevitably leads to having to switch between various, sometimes conflicting control tasks. Sting Racing, a collaboration between Georg...
David Wooden, Matthew Powers, Magnus Egerstedt, He...
AROBOTS
2005
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14 years 6 days ago
Obstacle Detection and Terrain Classification for Autonomous Off-Road Navigation
Autonomous navigation in cross-country environments presents many new challenges with respect to more traditional, urban environments. The lack of highly structured components in t...
Roberto Manduchi, Andres Castano, A. Talukder, Lar...
GECCO
2005
Springer
161views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
14 years 5 months ago
Autonomous navigation system applied to collective robotics with ant-inspired communication
Research in collective robotics is motivated mainly by the possibility of achieving an efficient solution to multi-objective navigation tasks when multiple robots are employed, in...
Renato Reder Cazangi, Fernando J. Von Zuben, Maur&...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
159views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
14 years 5 months ago
Detection and Localization of Curbs and Stairways Using Stereo Vision
— We present algorithms to detect and precisely localize curbs and stairways for autonomous navigation. These algorithms combine brightness information (in the form of edgels) wi...
Xiaoye Lu, Roberto Manduchi
ICRA
2005
IEEE
139views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
14 years 5 months ago
A Biologically Based Flight Control System for a Blimp-based UAV
- Autonomous navigation in 2D and 3D environments has been studied for a long time. Navigating within a 3D environment is very challenging for both animals and robots and a variety...
Sergi Bermúdez i Badia, Pawel Pyk, Paul F. ...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
160views Robotics» more  ICRA 2006»
14 years 6 months ago
Model-based Estimation of Off-highway Road Geometry using Single-axis LADAR and Inertial Sensing
Abstract— This paper applies some previously studied extended Kalman filter techniques for planar road geometry estimation to the domain of autonomous navigation of offhighway v...
Lars B. Cremean, Richard M. Murray
ICRA
2007
IEEE
157views Robotics» more  ICRA 2007»
14 years 6 months ago
Vegetation Detection for Driving in Complex Environments
— A key challenge for autonomous navigation in cluttered outdoor environments is the reliable discrimination between obstacles that must be avoided at all costs, and lesser obsta...
David M. Bradley, Ranjith Unnikrishnan, James Bagn...
IROS
2009
IEEE
195views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
14 years 7 months ago
Optical flow-based controller for reactive and relative navigation dedicated to a four rotor rotorcraft
— Autonomous navigation of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can be achieved with a reactive system which allows the robot to overcome all the unexpected changes in its environmen...
Eduardo Rondon, Isabelle Fantoni-Coichot, Anand Sa...