— To operate outdoors or on non-flat surfaces, mobile robots need appropriate data structures that provide a compact representation of the environment and at the same time suppo...
— Recent research has shown that robots can model their world with Multi-Level (ML) surface maps, which utilize ‘patches’ in a 2D grid space to represent various environment ...
Cesar Rivadeneyra, Isaac Miller, Jonathan R. Schoe...
Abstract— In this paper, simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) is combined with landmark recognition to close large loops in unstructured, outdoor environments. Camera and...
Image understanding involves analyzing many different aspects of the scene. In this paper, we are concerned with how these tasks can be combined in a way that improves the perform...