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ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Keeping Track of Humans: Have I Seen This Person Before?
— In this paper we describe a system that enables a mobile robot equipped with a color vision system to track humans in indoor environments. We developed a method for tracking hu...
Wojciech Zajdel, Zoran Zivkovic, Ben J. A. Krö...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Leveraging Limited Autonomous Mobility to Frame Attractive Group Photos
- Robot photographers have appeared in a variety of novelty settings over the past few years and typically have exploited rudimentary image-content-based approaches to identifying ...
Jason Campbell, Padmanabhan Pillai
IROS
2006
IEEE
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A Robust Docking Strategy for a Mobile Robot using Flow Field Divergence
— We present a robust strategy for docking a mobile robot in close proximity with an upright surface using optical flow field divergence. Unlike previous approaches, we achieve...
Chris McCarthy, Nick Barnes
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Learning Relational Navigation Policies
— Navigation is one of the fundamental tasks for a mobile robot. The majority of path planning approaches has been designed to entirely solve the given problem from scratch given...
Alexandru Cocora, Kristian Kersting, Christian Pla...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Topological characterization of mobile robot behavior
— We propose to classify the behaviors of a mobile robot thanks to topological methods as an alternative to metric ones. To do so, we adapt an analysis scheme from Physics of non...
Aurélien Hazan, Frédéric Dave...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Control of a Nonholonomic Mobile Robot Via Sensor-based Target Tracking and Pose Estimation
— The paper addresses the problem of controlling the posture of a nonholonomic mobile robot via sensor-based target tracking. The control technique here considered is adapted fro...
M. Maya-Mendez, Pascal Morin, Claude Samson
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Obstacle Avoidance Behavior for a Biologically-inspired Mobile Robot Using Binaural Ultrasonic Sensors
– Many untethered mobile robots require an operator’s vision and intelligence for guidance and navigation. Animals and insects, however, use sensory systems such as hearing, an...
William A. Lewinger, Michael S. Watson, Roger D. Q...
IJCNN
2006
IEEE
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A Mobile Vision System with Reconfigurable Intelligent Agents
— Performing face detection and tracking on a mobile robot in a dynamic environment is a challenging task with the real-time constraints. To realize a natural reactive behavior o...
Yan Meng
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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An Agent-based Mobile Robot System using Configurable SOC Technique
– To make a mobile robot with real-time vision system adapt to the highly dynamic environments and emergencies under the real-time constraints, a significant account of processin...
Yan Meng
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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A Cognitive Modeling of Space using Fingerprints of Places for Mobile Robot Navigation
- In this work we address the problem of perception, spatial cognition and topological navigation for a mobile robot. The objective of this work is to enable the navigation of an a...
Adriana Tapus, Roland Siegwart