Abstract— This paper describes work we have done in developing an insertable surgical imaging device with multiple degrees-of-freedom for minimally invasive surgery. The device i...
Tie Hu, Peter K. Allen, Nancy J. Hogle, Dennis L. ...
— Recent work has demonstrated the benefits of adopting a fully probabilistic SLAM approach in sequential motion and structure estimation from an image sequence. Unlike standard...
Javier Civera, Andrew J. Davison, J. M. M. Montiel
— One of the key tasks during the realization of probabilistic approaches to localization is the design of a proper sensor model, that calculates the likelihood of a measurement ...
Patrick Pfaff, Christian Plagemann, Wolfram Burgar...
— It is widely agreed that efficient visual search requires the integration of target-driven top-down information and image-driven bottom-up information. Yet the problem of gaze...
— A control strategy inspired by the hunting tactics of ladybugs is presented to simultaneously achieve sensor coverage and exploration of an area with a group of networked robot...
Mac Schwager, Francesco Bullo, David Skelly, Danie...
Abstract— A distributed control law that guarantees connectivity maintenance in a network of multiple mobile agents is presented. The control law respects the limited sensing cap...
Serpentine robots are slender, multi-segmented vehicles designed to provide greater mobility than conventional mobile robots. Serpentine robots are ideally suited for urban search...
Abstract— In order to reduce computational burden of identification methods for multivariable systems, a hierarchical least squares (HLS) algorithm is developed. The basic idea ...
— This paper presents slope traversal experiments with slip compensation control for lunar/planetary exploration rovers. On loose soil, wheels of the rover easily slip even when ...
— An imaging sensor made of multiple light-weight non-overlapping cameras is an effective sensor for a small unmanned aerial vehicle that has strong payload limitation. This pape...