Appearance-based localization compares the current image taken from a robot's camera to a set of pre-recorded images in order to estimate the current location of the robot. S...
Abstract— Precise calibration of camera intrinsic and extrinsic parameters, while often useful, is difficult to obtain during field operation and presents scaling issues for mu...
Olivier Koch, Matthew R. Walter, Albert S. Huang, ...
Abstract. This paper presents a new technique for computing collisionfree navigation motions from task-level commands for animated human characters in interactive virtual environme...
— 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,...
—An algorithmic solution method is presented for the problem of autonomous robot motion in completely unknown environments. Our approach is based on the alternate execution of tw...
Giuseppe Oriolo, Giovanni Ulivi, Marilena Venditte...