— As navigation autonomy becomes an increasingly important research topic for biped humanoid robots, efficient approaches to perception and mapping that are suited to the unique...
Philipp Michel, Joel E. Chestnutt, Satoshi Kagami,...
The swept volume of a moving solid is a powerful computational and visualization concept. It provides an excellent aid for path and accessibility planning in robotics and for simu...
Jarek Rossignac, J. J. Kim, S. C. Song, K. C. Suh,...
We present a novel approach to legged locomotion over rough terrain that is thoroughly rooted in optimization. This approach relies on a hierarchy of fast, anytime algorithms to p...
Matthew Zucker, Nathan D. Ratliff, Martin Stolle, ...
— The paper describes a navigation algorithm for dynamic, uncertain environment. Moving obstacles are supposed to move on typical patterns which are pre-learned and are represent...
Chiara Fulgenzi, Christopher Tay, Anne Spalanzani,...
— We introduce a hierarchical variant of the probabilistic roadmap method for motion planning. By recursively refining an initially sparse sampling in neighborhoods of the C-obs...