Abstract. This paper concerns the exploration of a natural environment by a mobile robot equipped with both a video camera and a range sensor (stereo or laser range finder); we fo...
Carlos Parra, Rafael Murrieta-Cid, Michel Devy, Ma...
Urban Search And Rescue (USAR) is a time critical task. Rescue teams have to explore a large terrain within a short amount of time in order to locate survivors after a disaster. O...
The control of mobile robots acting autonomously in the real world is one of the long-term goals of the field of artificial intelligence. So far the field lacks methods bridging th...
This paper presents a technique for mapping partially observable features from multiple uncertain vantage points. The problem of concurrent mapping and localization (CML) is state...
John J. Leonard, Richard J. Rikoski, Paul M. Newma...
In this paper we present a novel approach to mobile robot navigation based on environment representation by statistical models. Natural unstructured scenes are interpreted as real...