IJRR
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
Abstract— Accurate terrain estimation is critical for autonomous offroad navigation. Reconstruction of a 3D surface allows rough and hilly ground to be represented, yielding fast...
AROBOTS
2004
13 years 11 months ago
2004
The subject of this article is a scheme for distributed outdoor localization of a team of robots and the use of the robot team for outdoor terrain mapping. Localization is accompli...
AROBOTS
2005
13 years 11 months ago
2005
Autonomous navigation in cross-country environments presents many new challenges with respect to more traditional, urban environments. The lack of highly structured components in t...
AROBOTS
2005
13 years 11 months ago
2005
We present a new terrain classification technique both for effective, autonomous locomotion over rough, unknown terrains and for the qualitative analysis of terrains for exploratio...
CORR
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2007
Springer
A path from s to t on a polyhedral terrain is descending if the height of a point p never increases while we move p along the path from s to t. No efficient algorithm is known to ...
IJVR
2006
13 years 11 months ago
2006
Real time terrain rendering plays a very important role in many fields, such of GIS, virtual reality, and military simulations. With the rapid development of PC-level hardware, rec...
AROBOTS
2006
13 years 11 months ago
2006
Wheel sinkage is an important indicator of mobile robot mobility in natural outdoor terrains. This paper presents a vision-based method to measure the sinkage of a rigid robot whee...
CORR
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2010
Springer
In this paper, we study imprecise terrains, that is, triangulated terrains with a vertical error interval in the vertices. We study the problem of removing as many local extrema (...
CGF
2010
13 years 11 months ago
2010
This paper presents a diffusion method for generating terrains from a set of parameterized curves that characterize the landform features such as ridge lines, riverbeds or cliffs....
AROBOTS
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Autonomous mobile robots need to adapt their behavior to the terrain over which they drive, and to predict the traversability of the terrain so that they can effectively plan thei...