Urban Search And Rescue (USAR) is a time critical task. Rescue teams have to explore a large terrain within a short amount of time in order to locate survivors after a disaster. O...
In recent years, much progress has been made in outdoor autonomous navigation. However, safe navigation is still a daunting challenge in terrain containing vegetation. In this pap...
This paper is concerned with the in-field autonomous operation of unmanned marine vehicles in accordance with convention for safe and proper collision avoidance as prescribed by t...
Michael R. Benjamin, John J. Leonard, Joseph A. Cu...
We propose an approach to building topological maps of environments based on image sequences. The central idea is to use manifold constraints to find representative feature protot...