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CANDC
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Local issues, local uses: tools for robotics and sensing in community contexts
This paper describes six creativity support tools we developed to foster community engagement and expression with robotics and sensing, assessing the benefits and shortcomings of ...
Carl F. DiSalvo, Marti Louw, Julina Coupland, Mary...
TROB
2002
174views more  TROB 2002»
13 years 4 months ago
A general algorithm for robot formations using local sensing and minimal communication
Abstract-We study the problem of achieving global behavior in a group of distributed robots using only local sensing and minimal communication, in the context of formations. The go...
Jakob Fredslund, Maja J. Mataric
PDC
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Participatory design in community computing contexts: tales from the field
As technology becomes more embedded in our daily lives, there is a great deal of hope about the use of information technology to achieve positive community outcomes like increasin...
Cecelia Merkel, Lu Xiao, Umer Farooq, Craig H. Gan...
IROS
2009
IEEE
230views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Stability and robustness analysis tools for marine robot localization and SLAM applications
— Our aim is to explore the fundamental stability issues of a robotic vehicle carrying out localization, mapping, and feedback control in a perturbation-filled environment. Moti...
Brendan Englot, Franz Hover
CVPR
1999
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Using the Condensation Algorithm for Robust, Vision-based Mobile Robot Localization
To navigate reliably in indoor environments, a mobile robot must know where it is. This includes both the ability of globally localizing the robot from scratch, as well as trackin...
Frank Dellaert, Wolfram Burgard, Dieter Fox, Sebas...