Abstract— The paper presents two different methods for mobile robot tracking and following of a fast-moving person in outdoor unstructured and possibly dynamic environment. The r...
Marin Kobilarov, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Jeff Hyams, P...
— This paper presents the Visual Threat Awareness (VISTA) system for real time collision obstacle detection for an unmanned air vehicle (UAV). Computational stereo performance ha...
— This paper explores the space of active modular trusses, ranging from a passive truss with one independent active climbing module to fully self-reconfiguring dynamically contr...
Carrick Detweiler, Marsette Vona, Keith Kotay, Dan...
Abstract— We consider the problem of autonomously estimating position and orientation of an object from tactile data. When initial uncertainty is high, estimation of all six para...
Anna Petrovskaya, Oussama Khatib, Sebastian Thrun,...
Abstract— This paper investigates the robustness of underconstrained cable-driven robots to external disturbance wrenches (force/moment combinations). Two cases are considered: i...
Abstract— This paper presents a tactical path planning algorithm for following ridges or valleys across a 3D terrain. The intent is to generate a path that enables an unmanned ve...
David L. Page, Andreas Koschan, Mongi A. Abidi, Ja...
Abstract— In robot-assisted interventions, providing a surgeon with haptic information regarding contacts made between surgical instruments and tissue can improve task performanc...
Mahdi Tavakoli, Rajnikant V. Patel, Mehrdad Moalle...