This paper presents a simple and efficient method of modeling synthetic vision, memory, and learning for autonomous animated characters in real-time virtual environments. The mode...
Abstract— Robots are emerging from industrial plants toward every people’s daily life. Thus, navigation in and understanding of human related environments becomes a prerequisit...
Christian Pascal Connette, Oliver Meister, Martin ...
Abstract The visual homing abilities of insects can be explained by the snapshot hypothesis. It asserts that an animal is guided to a previously visited location by comparing the c...
In this paper we examine the problem of localisation and mapping of an unknown environment using data from a laser range finder. In order to support our method we detect landmark...
— Assisting humans in their daily lives requires robots to be proficient in manual tasks and effective in communicating states/intentions with human users. This paper advocates ...