AROBOTS
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
AROBOTS
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
Wheel sinkage is an important indicator of mobile robot mobility in natural outdoor terrains. This paper presents a vision-based method to measure the sinkage of a rigid robot whee...
AROBOTS
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
All mobile bases suffer from localization errors. Previous approaches to accommodate for localization errors either use external sensors such as lasers or sonars, or use internal s...
AROBOTS
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
How can a mobile robot measure the area of a closed region that is beyond its immediate sensing range? This problem, which we name as blind area measurement, is inspired from scout...
AROBOTS
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
Most current mobile robots are designed to determine their actions according to their positions. Before making a decision, they need to localize themselves. Thus, their observation...
AROBOTS
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
AROBOTS
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
Because of their ability to naturally float in the air, indoor airships (often called blimps) constitute an appealing platform for research in aerial robotics. However, when confr...
AROBOTS
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
This article presents a very efficient SLAM algorithm that works by hierarchically dividing a map into local regions and subregions. At each level of the hierarchy each region sto...
AROBOTS
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
Two basic tasks must be performed by an olfactory robot tracking a specific odor source : navigate in a turbulent odor plume and recognize an odor regardless of its concentration....