— This paper describes a compact robot with two magnetic wheels in a bicycle arrangement, which is intended for inspecting the inner casing of pipes with complex shaped structure...
This paper introduces a “weighted” matching algorithm to estimate a robot’s planar displacement by matching twodimensional range scans. The influence of each scan point on ...
Samuel T. Pfister, Kristopher L. Kriechbaum, Sterg...
Abstract-- In this paper, we consider the problem of mobile robots navigating in environments with non-rigid objects. Whereas robots can plan their paths more effectively when they...
Barbara Frank, Cyrill Stachniss, Ruediger Schmeddi...
Abstract— The future of robots, as our companions is dependent on their ability to understand, interpret and represent the environment in a human compatible manner. Towards this ...
In order to deploy mobile robots in social environments like indoor buildings, they need to be provided with perceptual abilities to detect people. In the computer vision literatur...