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MVA
1990
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14 years 20 days ago
Using and Generating Environment Models for Indoor Mobile Robots
An autonomous mobile robot must be able to combine uncertain sensory information with prior knowledge of the world. Moreover, these operations have to be performed fast enough for...
Yuval Roth-Tabak, Terry E. Weymouth
IJCAI
1993
14 years 25 days ago
Using Local Information in a Non-Local Way for Mapping Graph-Like Worlds
This paper describes a technique whereby an autonomous agent such as a mobile robot can explore an unknown environment and make a topologicalmapofit. It is assumedthat the environ...
Gregory Dudek, Paul Freedman, Souad Hadjres
IJCAI
1997
14 years 25 days ago
Active Mobile Robot Localization
Localization is the problem of determining the position of a mobile robot from sensor data. Most existing localization approaches are passive, i.e., they do not exploit the opport...
Wolfram Burgard, Dieter Fox, Sebastian Thrun
BMVC
1998
14 years 26 days ago
Vision Based Person Tracking with a Mobile Robot
We address the problem of detecting and tracking people with a mobile robot. The need for following a person with a mobile robot arises in many different service robotic applicati...
Christian Schlegel, Jörg Illmann, Heiko Jaber...
AAAI
1998
14 years 26 days ago
Position Estimation for Mobile Robots in Dynamic Environments
For mobile robots to be successful, they have to navigate safely in populated and dynamic environments. While recent research has led to a variety of localization methods that can...
Dieter Fox, Wolfram Burgard, Sebastian Thrun, Armi...
IJCAI
2003
14 years 26 days ago
Exploring Unknown Environments with Mobile Robots using Coverage Maps
In this paper we introduce coverage maps as a new way of representing the environment of a mobile robot. Coverage maps store for each cell of a given grid a posterior about the am...
Cyrill Stachniss, Wolfram Burgard
IJCAI
2003
14 years 26 days ago
Where is ...? Learning and Utilizing Motion Patterns of Persons with Mobile Robots
Whenever people move through their environments they do not move randomly. Instead, they usually follow specific trajectories or motion patterns corresponding to their intentions....
Grzegorz Cielniak, Maren Bennewitz, Wolfram Burgar...
EACL
2003
ACL Anthology
14 years 26 days ago
Meaningful Conversation with a Mobile Robot
We describe an implementation integrating a spoken dialogue system with a mobile robot, which the user can direct to specific locations, ask for information about its status, and...
Johan Bos, Ewan Klein, Tetsushi Oka
IJIT
2004
14 years 27 days ago
Mobile Robot Navigation Using Local Model Networks
Developing techniques for mobile robot navigation constitutes one of the major trends in the current research on mobile robotics. This paper develops a local model network (LMN) fo...
Hamdi A. Awad, Mohamed A. Al-Zorkany
LANMR
2007
14 years 28 days ago
Planning using situation calculus, prolog and a mobile robot
This paper presents a system that controls the behavior of a mobile robot. The system is based on situation calculus, the initial state is described and a goal is given, Prolog pro...
Pilar Pozos Parra, Edgardo Yescas, Jacob Vá...