— This paper addresses the problem of efficiently computing robot navigation functions. Navigation functions are potential functions free of spurious local minima that present a...
Luciano C. A. Pimenta, Alexandre R. Fonseca, Guilh...
This paper describes a catadioptric microsensor for multidirectional imaging and 3D egomotion computation. Inspired by the wide viewing angle of insects’ compound eyes, we show ...
Christel-Loic Tisse, Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte, R. And...
Robotic navigation algorithms increasingly make use of the panoramic field of view provided by omnidirectional images to assist with localization tasks. Since the images taken by ...
Abstract— The Sensory Ego-Sphere (SES) is a short-term memory for a robot in the form of an egocentric, tessellated, spherical, sensory-motor map of the robot’s locale. This pa...
Katherine Achim Fleming, Richard Alan Peters II, R...
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, ...
Wesley H. Huang, Brett R. Fajen, Jonathan R. Fink,...