— Recent research has shown that robots can model their world with Multi-Level (ML) surface maps, which utilize ‘patches’ in a 2D grid space to represent various environment ...
Cesar Rivadeneyra, Isaac Miller, Jonathan R. Schoe...
— Prior research in biology and mechanics has shown the importance of hierarchy to the performance of dry adhesive systems on rough surfaces. The gecko utilizes several levels of...
Alan T. Asbeck, Sanjay Dastoor, Aaron Parness, Lau...
— Computer vision researchers have proved the feasibility of camera self-calibration —the estimation of a camera’s internal parameters from an image sequence without any know...
Javier Civera, Diana R. Bueno, Andrew J. Davison, ...
A Riemannian-geometry approach for control and stabilization of dynamics of object manipulation under holonomic or non-holonomic (but Pfaffian) constraints is presented. First, pos...
— Planetary exploration systems, operating under severe environmental and operating conditions, have thus far successfully employed carefully calibrated stereo cameras and manipu...