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IJRR
2010
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13 years 11 months ago
View-based Maps
— Robotic systems that can create and use visual maps in realtime have obvious advantages in many applications, from automatic driving to mobile manipulation in the home. In this...
Kurt Konolige, James Bowman, J. D. Chen, Patrick M...
RAS
2007
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13 years 12 months ago
Including probabilistic target detection attributes into map representations
Range measuring sensors can play an extremely important role in robot navigation. All range measuring devices rely on a ‘detection criterion’ made in the presence of noise, to...
John Mullane, Ebi Jose, Martin David Adams, Wijeru...
ATAL
2000
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
High-Level Robot Control through Logic
This paper presents a programmable logic-based agent control system that interleaves planning, plan execution and perception. In this system, a program is a collection of logical f...
Murray Shanahan, Mark Witkowski
ICRA
2002
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
An Efficient Approach to the Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping Problem
—The simultaneous localization and map building (SLAM) problem asks if it is possible for an autonomous vehicle to start in an unknown location in an unknown environment and then...
Stefan B. Williams, Gamini Dissanayake, Hugh F. Du...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
Hybrid Simultaneous Localization and Map Building: Closing the Loop with Multi-Hypotheses Tracking
In this paper simultaneous localization and map building is performed with a hybrid, metric - topological, approach. A global topological map connects local metric maps, allowing ...
Nicola Tomatis, Illah R. Nourbakhsh, Roland Siegwa...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
Hybrid Mobile Robot Localization using Switching State-Space Models
—This article describes a rigorous and complete framework for the simultaneous localization and map building problem for mobile robots: the symmetries and perturbations map (SPma...
Haris Baltzakis, Panos E. Trahanias
ICARCV
2002
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
Incremental map building using an occupancy grid for an autonomous monocular robot
This paper centres on the problem of estimating the location of features in the environment within a map building framework for a mobile robot with a single camera. Most of the ex...
R. Gartshore, A. Aguado, C. Galambos
IROS
2008
IEEE
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14 years 6 months ago
Incremental vision-based topological SLAM
— In robotics, appearance-based topological map building consists in infering the topology of the environment explored by a robot from its sensor measurements. In this paper, we ...
Adrien Angeli, Stéphane Doncieux, Jean-Arca...