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JIRS
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
Exploring the Effect of Obscurants on Safe Landing Zone Identification
Currently, robotic rotorcraft determine landing zones based on visual cues or predetermined GPS waypoints. Missions such as perch-and-stare or cargo delivery demand the ability to ...
Keith W. Sevcik, Noah Kuntz, Paul Y. Oh
IJRR
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
The Highly Adaptive SDM Hand: Design and Performance Evaluation
The inherent uncertainty associated with unstructured environments makes establishing a successful grasp difficult. Traditional approaches to this problem involve hands that are c...
Aaron M. Dollar, Robert D. Howe
AROBOTS
2010
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13 years 9 months ago
Contact sensing and grasping performance of compliant hands
Limitations in modern sensing technologies result in large errors in sensed target object geometry and location in unstructured environments. As a result, positioning a robotic end...
Aaron M. Dollar, Leif P. Jentoft, Jason H. Gao, Ro...
AAAI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Unstructured Audio Classification for Environment Recognition
My thesis aims to contribute towards building autonomous agents that are able to understand their surrounding environment through the use of both audio and visual information. To ...
Selina Chu
ISRR
2001
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Field Robots
Field Robots are machines that work in unstructured environments, including under water, in mines, in forests and on farms, and in the air. These applications involve both advance...
Chuck Thorpe, Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte
IROS
2008
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
A solution for SLAM through augmenting vision and range information
— This paper proposes a method for augmenting the information of a monocular camera and a range finder. This method is a valuable step towards solving the SLAM problem in unstruc...
Ali Akbar Aghamohammadi, Amir Hossein Tamjidi, Ham...
ICDE
2009
IEEE
106views Database» more  ICDE 2009»
14 years 11 months ago
Dynamic Approaches to In-network Aggregation
Collaboration between small-scale wireless devices hinges on their ability to infer properties shared across multiple nearby nodes. Wireless-enabled mobile devices in particular cr...
Oliver Kennedy, Christoph Koch, Alan J. Demers