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ROBOCUP
2004
Springer
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A Vision Based System for Goal-Directed Obstacle Avoidance
We present a complete system for obstacle avoidance for a mobile robot. It was used in the RoboCup 2003 obstacle avoidance challenge in the Sony Four Legged League. The system enab...
Jan Hoffmann, Matthias Jüngel, Martin Lö...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Toward 30-gram Autonomous Indoor Aircraft: Vision-based Obstacle Avoidance and Altitude Control
Abstract— We aim at developing autonomous microflyers capable of navigating within houses or small built environments. The severe weight and energy constraints of indoor flying...
Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano
IJCNN
2007
IEEE
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Theta Neuron Networks: Robustness to Noise in Embedded Applications
- In this paper, we train a one-layer Theta Neuron Network (TNN) to perform a Braitenberg obstacle avoidance algorithm on a Khepera robot. The Theta neuron model is more biological...
Sam McKennoch, Preethi Sundaradevan, Linda G. Bush...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Stability of haptic obstacle avoidance and force interaction
— Stability problems associated with haptics and robot control with obstacle avoidance are analyzed. Obstacle avoidance algorithms are revised to accomplish stable redesign using...
Rolf Johansson, Magnus Annerstedt, Anders Robertss...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Vision-based guidance and control of a hovering vehicle in unknown, GPS-denied environments
— This paper describes the system architecture and core algorithms for a quadrotor helicopter that uses vision data to navigate an unknown, indoor, GPS-denied environment. Withou...
Spencer Ahrens, Daniel Levine, Gregory Andrews, Jo...