In field environments it is not usually possible to provide robots in advance with valid geometric models of its environment and task element locations. The robot or robot teams ne...
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...
Amy C. Larson, Guleser K. Demir, Richard M. Voyles
Abstract. Inspired by the abilities of both the praying mantis and the pigeon to judge distance by use of motionbased visually mediated odometry, we create miniature models for dep...
Alfred M. Bruckstein, Robert J. Holt, Igor Katsman...
Abstract-- We present a vision- and ladar-based approach to autonomous driving on rural and desert roads that has been tested extensively in a closed-loop system. The vision compon...
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...
Roberto Manduchi, Andres Castano, A. Talukder, Lar...