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AAAI
2011
12 years 10 months ago
Multi-Observation Sensor Resetting Localization with Ambiguous Landmarks
Successful approaches to the robot localization problem include Monte Carlo particle filters, which estimate non-parametric localization belief distributions. However, particle ...
Brian Coltin, Manuela M. Veloso
AROBOTS
2002
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13 years 10 months ago
Selecting Landmarks for Localization in Natural Terrain
We describe techniques to optimally select landmarks for performing mobile robot localization by matching terrain maps. The method is based upon a maximum-likelihood robot localiza...
Clark F. Olson
RAS
2006
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13 years 10 months ago
Appearance-based concurrent map building and localization
Appearance-based autonomous robot localization has some advantages over landmark-based localization as, for instance, the simplicity of the processes applied to the sensor readings...
Josep M. Porta, Ben J. A. Kröse
ICRA
1998
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Selecting Targets for Local Reference Frames
This paper addresses the problem of seeking out parts of the environment that provide adequate features in order to perform robot localization. The objective is to choose good regi...
Saul Simhon, Gregory Dudek
ICRA
2002
IEEE
147views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
14 years 3 months ago
Auxiliary Particle Filter Robot Localization from High-Dimensional Sensor Observations
We apply the auxiliary particle filter algorithm of Pitt and Shephard (1999) to the problem of robot localization. To deal with the high-dimensional sensor observations (images) ...
Nikos A. Vlassis, Bas Terwijn, Ben J. A. Krös...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
474views Robotics» more  ICRA 2003»
14 years 4 months ago
Mobile robot navigation using sensor fusion
Abstract— This paper considers the localizaton and navigation of a mobile robot. The control strategy is based on a nonlinear model predictive control technique that utilizes the...
Fernando C. Lizarralde, Eduardo V. L. Nunes, Liu H...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
151views Robotics» more  ICRA 2003»
14 years 4 months ago
Adaptive real-time particle filters for robot localization
— Particle filters have recently been applied with great success to mobile robot localization. This success is mostly due to their simplicity and their ability to represent arbi...
Cody C. T. Kwok, Dieter Fox, Marina Meila
IJCNN
2006
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Biologically Inspired KFLANN Place Fields for Robot Localization
– This paper presents a hippocampal inspired robot localization model that provides a means for a simple robotic platform with ultrasonic sensors to localize itself. There have b...
Alex Leng Phuan Tay
IROS
2007
IEEE
144views Robotics» more  IROS 2007»
14 years 5 months ago
High precision PSD guided robot localization: Design, mapping, and position control
— This paper introduces our recently developed high precision robot localization system employing position sensitive detectors (PSD). A lateral effect PSD is an ideal position se...
S. Blank, Yantao Shen, Ning Xi, Chi Zhang, Uchechu...