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ISER
1993
Springer
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A Unified Approach to Planning, Sensing and Navigation for Mobile Robots
Much of the focus of the research effort in path planning for mobile robots has centred on the problem of finding a path from a start location to a goal location, while minimising...
Alexander Zelinsky, Shin'ichi Yuta
ICRA
1994
IEEE
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Mobile Robot Obstacle Avoidance in a Computerized Travel Aid for the Blind
A blind traveler walking through an unfamiliar environment, and a mobile robot navigating through a cluttered environment have an important feature in common: both have the kinema...
Shraga Shoval, Johann Borenstein, Yoram Koren
ICRA
1994
IEEE
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Provable Strategies for Vision-Guided Exploration in Three Dimensions
An approach is presented for exploring an unknown, arbitrary surface in three-dimensional (3D) space by a mobile robot. The main contributions are (1) an analysis of the capabilit...
Kiriakos N. Kutulakos, Charles R. Dyer, Vladimir J...
ICRA
1993
IEEE
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Vision-Guided Exploration: A Step Toward General Motion Planning in Three Dimensions
We present an approach for solving the path planning problem for a mobile robot operating in an unknown, three dimensional environment containing obstacles of arbitrary shape. The...
Kiriakos N. Kutulakos, Vladimir J. Lumelsky, Charl...
VW
1998
Springer
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Webots: Symbiosis Between Virtual and Real Mobile Robots
Abstract. This paper presents Webots: a realistic mobile robot simulator allowing a straightforward transfer to real robots. The simulator currently support the Khepera mobile robo...
Olivier Michel
KI
1998
Springer
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GOLEX - Bridging the Gap between Logic (GOLOG) and a Real Robot
The control of mobile robots acting autonomously in the real world is one of the long-term goals of the field of artificial intelligence. So far the field lacks methods bridging th...
Dirk Hähnel, Wolfram Burgard, Gerhard Lakemey...
ECCV
1998
Springer
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Stereo Vision-Based Navigation in Unknown Indoor Environment
Different applications in the field of vision-based navigation of autonomous mobile robots depend on the degree of knowledge of the environment. Indoor environment applications oft...
Oliver Schreer
ICRA
1998
IEEE
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Mobile Robot Exploration and Map-Building with Continuous Localization
Our research addresses how to integrate exploration and localization for mobile robots. A robot exploring and mapping an unknown environment needs to know its own location, but it...
Brian Yamauchi, Alan C. Schultz, William Adams
ICRA
1998
IEEE
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VFH+: Reliable Obstacle Avoidance for Fast Mobile Robots
This paper presents further developments of the earlier Vector Field Histogram (VFH) method for realtime mobile robot obstacle avoidance. The enhanced method, called VFH+, offers ...
Iwan Ulrich, Johann Borenstein
ICRA
1998
IEEE
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A Hybrid Collision Avoidance Method for Mobile Robots
This paper proposes a hybrid approach to the problem of collision avoidance for indoor mobile robots. The DWA (short for: model-based dynamic window approach) integrates sensor dat...
Dieter Fox, Wolfram Burgard, Sebastian Thrun, Armi...