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AROBOTS
2008
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15 years 1 months ago
Extending obstacle avoidance methods through multiple parameter-space transformations
Obstacle avoidance methods approach the problem of mobile robot autonomous navigation by steering the robot in real-time according to the most recent sensor readings, being suitab...
Jose-Luis Blanco, Javier Gonzalez, Juan-Antonio Fe...
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ICPR
2004
IEEE
16 years 2 months ago
Estimation of Distance to Planar Surfaces and Type of Material with Infrared Sensors
This paper proposes a new technique for computing the distance to an unknown planar surface and, at the same time, estimating the material of the surface through the use of low-co...
Miguel Angel García, Agusti Solanas
ICRA
2008
IEEE
176views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
15 years 7 months ago
Experimental investigation on underwater acoustic ranging for small robotic fish
— GPS-free localization is essential for navigation and information tagging in small robotic fish-based aquatic mobile sensor networks. Constraints on size, weight, and onboard ...
Stephan Shatara, Xiaobo Tan, Ernest Mbemmo, Nathan...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
125views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
14 years 11 months ago
Mapping opaque and confined environments using proprioception
Mapping opaque and confined environments such as caves and pipes is a challenging problem for mobile robots because sensor information is severely limited to the immediate proximit...
Jacob Everist, Wei-Min Shen
RAS
2010
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14 years 11 months ago
Data association and occlusion handling for vision-based people tracking by mobile robots
This paper presents an approach for tracking multiple persons on a mobile robot with a combination of colour and thermal vision sensors, using several new techniques. First, an ad...
Grzegorz Cielniak, Tom Duckett, Achim J. Lilientha...