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AROBOTS
2002
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Visual Navigation in Natural Environments: From Range and Color Data to a Landmark-Based Model
This paper concerns the exploration of a natural environment by a mobile robot equipped with both a video color camera and a stereo-vision system. We focus on the interest of such ...
Rafael Murrieta-Cid, Carlos Parra, Michel Devy
ASC
2004
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Recognizing environments from action sequences using self-organizing maps
In this paper, we describe development of a mobile robot which does unsupervised learning for recognizing an environment from action sequences. We call this novel recognition appr...
Seiji Yamada
AI
2004
Springer
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Brain-actuated interaction
Over the last years evidence has accumulated that shows the possibility to analyze human brain activity on-line and translate brain states into actions such as selecting a letter ...
José del R. Millán, Fréd&eacu...
TROB
2008
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Physical Path Planning Using a Pervasive Embedded Network
Abstract--We evaluate a technique that uses an embedded network deployed pervasively throughout an environment to aid robots in navigation. The embedded nodes do not know their abs...
Keith J. O'Hara, Daniel B. Walker, Tucker R. Balch
JIRS
2007
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Improving Robustness of Mobile Robots Using Model-based Reasoning
Retaining functionality of a mobile robot in the presence of faults is of particular interest in autonomous robotics. From our experiences in robotics we know that hardware is one ...
Michael W. Hofbaur, Johannes Köb, Gerald Stei...
AR
2005
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On actively closing loops in grid-based FastSLAM
Acquiring models of the environment belongs to the fundamental tasks of mobile robots. In the past, several researchers have focused on the problem of simultaneous localization an...
Cyrill Stachniss, Dirk Hähnel, Wolfram Burgar...
IJCV
2007
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Monocular Vision for Mobile Robot Localization and Autonomous Navigation
This paper presents a new real-time localization system for a mobile robot. We show that autonomous navigation is possible in outdoor situation with the use of a single camera and ...
Eric Royer, Maxime Lhuillier, Michel Dhome, Jean-M...
RAS
2006
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Efficient visual homing based on Fourier transformed panoramic images
We present a fast and efficient homing algorithm based on Fourier transformed panoramic images. By continuously comparing Fourier coefficients calculated from the current view wit...
Wolfgang Stürzl, Hanspeter A. Mallot
RAS
2006
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Robot learning through task identification
The operation of an autonomous mobile robot in a semi-structured environment is a complex, usually non-linear and partly unpredictable process. Lacking a theory of robot
Ulrich Nehmzow, Roberto Iglesias, Theocharis Kyria...
KES
2006
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Robust Positioning a Mobile Robot with Active Beacon Sensors
With the development of service robots and with the emerging concept of the ubiquitous world, localization of a mobile robot has become a popular issue. Even though several localiz...
JaeMu Yun, SungBu Kim, JangMyung Lee