The aggregate motion of a flock of birds, a herd of land animals, or a school of fish is a beautiful and familiar part of the natural world. But this type of complex motion is rar...
Vector Field Based Shape Deformations (VFSD) have been introduced as an efficient method to deform shapes in a volume-preserving foldover-free manner. However, mainly simple impl...
Wolfram von Funck, Holger Theisel, Hans-Peter Seid...
In robotic navigation, path planning is aimed at getting the optimum collision-free
path between a starting and target locations. The optimality criterion depends on
the surround...
Abstract— Mobile robots need maps or other forms of geometric information about the environment to navigate. The mobility sensors (LADAR, stereo, etc.) on these robotic vehicles ...
Bart C. Nabbe, Derek Hoiem, Alexei A. Efros, Marti...
A new approach called bioinspired engineering of exploration systems (BEES) and its value for solving pressing NASA and DoD needs are described. Insects (for example honeybees and ...
Sarita Thakoor, Javaan S. Chahl, Mandyam V. Sriniv...