To be useful as a mobility assistant for a human driver, an intelligent robotic wheelchair must be able to distinguish between safe and hazardous regions in its immediate environm...
— This paper presents a new technique for the update of a probabilistic spatial occupancy grid map using a forward sensor model. Unlike currently popular inverse sensor models, f...
Kaustubh Pathak, Andreas Birk 0002, Jann Poppinga,...
—We are interested in descriptions of 3D data sets, as obtained from stereo or a 3D digitizer. We therefore consider as input a sparse set of points, possibly associated with cer...
In this paper, we investigate the use of overhead high-resolution three-dimensional (3-D) data for enhancing the performances of an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) in vegetated terra...
Nicolas Vandapel, Raghavendra Donamukkala, Martial...
— This paper introduces a localization based on GPS and laser measurements for urban and non-urban outdoor environments. In this approach, the GPS pose is Kalman filtered using w...