AROBOTS
2005
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2005
In field environments it is not usually possible to provide robots in advance with valid geometric models of its environment and task element locations. The robot or robot teams ne...
IJVR
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
—Dance is one form of entertainment where physical movement is the key factor. The main reason why robots are experiencing a kind of “boom” is that they have a physical body....
SWARM
2008
SPRINGER
13 years 4 months ago
2008
SPRINGER
In this paper, we study self-organized flocking in a swarm of mobile robots. We present Kobot, a mobile robot platform developed specifically for swarm robotic studies. We describe...
SWARM
2008
SPRINGER
13 years 4 months ago
2008
SPRINGER
We present two swarm intelligence control mechanisms used for distributed robot path formation. In the first, the robots form linear chains. We study three variants of robot chains...
IJCV
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
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 ...
RAS
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
The Scale Invariant Feature Transform, SIFT, has been successfully applied to robot localization. Still, the number of features extracted with this approach is immense, especially...
RAS
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
In this paper we examine issues of localization, exploration, and planning in the context of a hybrid robot/camera-network system. We exploit the ubiquity of camera networks to us...
RAS
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
Mobile robots must cope with uncertainty from many sources along the path from interpreting raw sensor inputs to behavior selection to execution of the resulting primitive actions...
RAS
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
Humans have a remarkable ability to navigate using only vision, but mobile robots have not been nearly as successful. We propose a new approach to vision-guided local navigation, ...
RAS
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
This article introduces a new software tool that provides an accurate simulation of Sony Aibo robots and the capability to transfer controller programs from the simulation to the ...