— In appearance based robot localization a new image is matched with every image in the database. In this paper we describe how to reduce the number of images in this database wi...
Reservoir Computing (RC) techniques use a fixed (usually randomly created) recurrent neural network, or more generally any dynamic system, which operates at the edge of stability,...
Eric A. Antonelo, Benjamin Schrauwen, Dirk Strooba...
— This paper presents a feature based 3D mapping approach with regard to obtaining compact models of semistructured environments such as partially destroyed buildings where mobil...
For a mobile robot to move in a known environment and operate successfully, first it needs to robustly determine its initial position and orientation relative to the map, and then ...
Ali R. Vahdat, Naser NourAshrafoddin, Saeed Shiry ...
Contextual reasoning through graphical models such as Markov Random Fields often show superior performance against local classifiers in many domains. Unfortunately, this performanc...