A novel, miniature robot designed to use its two arms for both manipulation and locomotion is described. Intended for military and civilian surveillance and search-and-rescue appl...
Robust navigation through rocky terrain by small mobile robots is important for maximizing science return from upcoming missions to Mars. We are addressing this problem at multipl...
Richard Volpe, Tara A. Estlin, Sharon L. Laubach, ...
The formulation and optimization of joint trajectories for humanoid robots is quite different from this same task for standard robots because of the complexity of the humanoid rob...
This contribution describes the vision-based robotic control (VBRC) experiments executed on the Japanese research satellite ETS-VII. The VBRC experiments were designed to enhance ...
Maarten Vergauwen, Marc Pollefeys, Tinne Tuytelaar...
This paper presents a new appearance-based place recognition system for topological localization. The method uses a panoramic vision system to sense the environment. Color images ...