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SIGGRAPH
1987
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Flocks, herds and schools: A distributed behavioral model
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...
Craig W. Reynolds
PG
2007
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Explicit Control of Vector Field Based Shape Deformations
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...

Presentation
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16 years 10 months ago
Robust Robotic Path Planning Using Level Sets
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...
M. Sabry Hassouna
IROS
2006
IEEE
147views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
15 years 3 months ago
Opportunistic Use of Vision to Push Back the Path-Planning Horizon
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...
ALIFE
2002
14 years 9 months ago
Bioinspired Engineering of Exploration Systems for NASA and DoD
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...