Future planetary exploration missions will use cooperative robots to explore and sample rough terrain. To succeed robots will need to cooperatively acquire and share data. Here a c...
Vivek A. Sujan, Steven Dubowsky, Terrance L. Hunts...
— We report our first experiences with Leaving Flatland, an exploratory project that studies the key challenges of closing the loop between autonomous perception and action on c...
Benoit Morisset, Radu Bogdan Rusu, Aravind Sundare...
— The success of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rovers has demonstrated the important benefits that mobility adds to planetary exploration. Very soon, mission requirements will impos...
Ioannis M. Rekleitis, Jean-Luc Bedwani, Erick Dupu...
— This paper describes a 3D SLAM system using information from an actuated laser scanner and camera installed on a mobile robot.The laser samples the local geometry of the enviro...
— We describe a framework for finding and tracking “trails” for autonomous outdoor robot navigation. Through a combination of visual cues and ladar-derived structural inform...