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AROBOTS
2002
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14 years 10 months ago
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
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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15 years 3 months ago
Optimal navigation and object finding without geometric maps or localization
In this paper we present a dynamic data structure, useful for robot navigation in an unknown, simplyconnected planar environment. The guiding philosophy in this work is to avoid t...
Benjamín Tovar, Steven M. LaValle, Rafael M...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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15 years 4 months ago
Information retrieval system for human-robot communication - Asking for directions
— The creation of a robot capable of navigating in unknown urban environments without the use of GPS data or prior map knowledge is envisioned in the Autonomous City Explorer (AC...
Andrea Maria Bauer, Dirk Wollherr, Martin Buss
ICRA
1998
IEEE
163views Robotics» more  ICRA 1998»
15 years 2 months ago
A Multi-Loop Robust Navigation Architecture for Mobile Robots
This paper describes a multi-loop, modular navigation architecture for mobile robots whose structure allows the execution of most types of navigation tasks in a highly robust mann...
José Castro, Vítor Santos, M. Isabel...
IJRR
2002
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14 years 9 months ago
Navigation Strategies for Exploring Indoor Environments
This paper investigates safe and efficient map-building strategies for a mobile robot with imperfect control and sensing. In the implementation, a robot equipped with a range sens...
Héctor H. González-Baños, Jea...