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ICRA
2007
IEEE
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A Comparison of Two Approaches for Vision and Self-Localization on a Mobile Robot
Abstract— This paper considers two approaches to the problem of vision and self-localization on a mobile robot. In the first approach, the perceptual processing is primarily bot...
Daniel Stronger, Peter Stone
ICNSC
2007
IEEE
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Ceiling Light Landmarks Based Localization and Motion Control for a Mobile Robot
—This paper presents ceiling light landmarks based localization and motion control for a mobile robot. The novel mechanism design for the mobile robot is introduced, and the meth...
Hongbo Wang, Hongnian Yu, Lingfu Kong
CIRA
2007
IEEE
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Reinforcement Learning with a Supervisor for a Mobile Robot in a Real-world Environment
– This paper describes two experiments with supervised reinforcement learning (RL) on a real, mobile robot. Two types of experiments were preformed. One tests the robot’s relia...
Karla Conn, Richard Alan Peters II
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Self-Localization with RFID snapshots in densely tagged environments
Abstract— In this paper we show that, despite some disadvantageous properties of radio frequency identification (RFID), it is possible to localize a mobile robot quite accuratel...
Philipp Vorst, Sebastian Schneegans, Bin Yang, And...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Estimating landmark locations from geo-referenced photographs
Abstract— The problem of estimating the positions of landmarks using a mobile robot equipped with a camera has intensively been studied in the past. In this paper, we consider a ...
Henrik Kretzschmar, Cyrill Stachniss, Christian Pl...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Interacting with a mobile robot: Evaluating gestural object references
— Creating robots able to interact and cooperate with humans in household environments and everyday life is an emerging topic. Our goal is to facilitate a humanlike and intuitive...
Joachim Schmidt, Nils Hofemann, Axel Haasch, Janni...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Detecting obstacles and drop-offs using stereo and motion cues for safe local motion
— A mobile robot operating in an urban environment has to navigate around obstacles and hazards. Though a significant amount of work has been done on detecting obstacles, not mu...
Aniket Murarka, Mohan Sridharan, Benjamin Kuipers
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Navigation of an omni-directional mobile robot with active caster wheels
—This work deals with navigation of an omni-directional mobile robot with active caster wheels. Initially, the posture of the omni-directional mobile robot is calculated by using...
Eui-Jung Jung, Ho Yul Lee, Jae Hoon Lee, Byung-Ju ...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Nonlinear predictive control of an omnidirectional robot dribbling a rolling ball
Abstract— This paper focuses on the dribbling control problem of an omnidirectional mobile robot and a rolling ball in the RoboCup Middle Size domain. Because the ball easily sli...
Xiang Li, Andreas Zell
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Generalizing the dubins and reeds-shepp cars: Fastest paths for bounded-velocity mobile robots
— What is the shortest or fastest path a mobile robot can follow between two configurations in the unobstructed plane? The answer to this fundamental question is only known anal...
Andrei A. Furtuna, Devin J. Balkcom, Hamid Reza Ch...