CONEXT
2007
ACM
14 years 14 days ago
2007
ACM
A major task of a wireless sensor network is energy-efficient, timely, and robust dissemination of sensor readings back to the sink node. The AIDA project [1] aims to create a new...
CDC
2009
IEEE
14 years 16 days ago
2009
IEEE
In this paper, a novel artificial potential function is proposed for planning the path of a robotic sensor in a partially observed environment containing multiple obstacles and mul...
AINA
2007
IEEE
14 years 16 days ago
2007
IEEE
Many Ubiquitous computing applications can be considered as planning and acting problems in environments characterised by uncertainty and partial observability. Such systems rely ...
KI
1997
Springer
14 years 20 days ago
1997
Springer
One of the fundamental problems in the eld of mobile robotics is the estimation of the robot's position in the environment. Position probability grids have been proven to be a...
ICRA
1999
IEEE
14 years 25 days ago
1999
IEEE
This paper describes a new method for improving the accuracy of range information using low resolution ultrasonic sensors mounted on a mobile robot. These sensors emit ultra-sound...
ICRA
1999
IEEE
14 years 25 days ago
1999
IEEE
Human-friendly robots of new generation will require the sensor skin that is soft and covering the whole body. But it would be very difficult to fabricate it with the traditional ...
ICRA
2000
IEEE
14 years 28 days ago
2000
IEEE
A human can lift up an object with almost minimal grasping force regardless of the friction coefficient between the fingers and the object, but the sensing mechanism for this rema...
ICRA
2000
IEEE
14 years 28 days ago
2000
IEEE
The need for high precision robotic systems has increased in recent years. Examples include automated assembly of complex electro-mechanical products such as disk drives, cameras,...
ICRA
2000
IEEE
14 years 28 days ago
2000
IEEE
This paper describes the application of a computational vision sensor to active binocular tracking. The sensor outputs are used to control the vergence angles of the two cameras a...
MDM
2001
Springer
14 years 29 days ago
2001
Springer
Sensor networks are being widely deployed for measurement, detection and surveillance applications. In these new applications, users issue long-running queries over a combination o...