This paper presents further developments of the earlier Vector Field Histogram (VFH) method for realtime mobile robot obstacle avoidance. The enhanced method, called VFH+, offers ...
This paper addresses the problem of building large-scale maps of indoor environments with mobile robots. It proposes a statisticalapproach that phrases the map buildingproblem as ...
Tolerancing decisions can profoundly impact the quality and cost of electro-mechanical assemblies. Existing approaches to tolerance analysis and synthesis in design entail detailed...
Rachuri Sudarsan, Y. Narahari, Kevin W. Lyons, Ram...
Good robot performance often relies upon the selection of design parameters that lead to a well conditioned Jacobian or impedance "design" matrix. In this paper, a new d...
In this paper, we propose a 2D visual motion estimation method which can be exploited to achieve a dynamic positioning (eg. by gaze control) with respect to a sea-bottom area of i...
We suggest that planning for automated earthmoving operations such as digging a foundation or leveling a mound of soil, be treated at multiple levels. In a system that we have dev...
This paper addresses the problem of seeking out parts of the environment that provide adequate features in order to perform robot localization. The objective is to choose good regi...