New applications for autonomous robots bring them into the human environment where they are to serve as helpful assistants to untrained users in the home or office, or work as ca...
— For humanoid robots to fully realize their biped potential in a three-dimensional world and step over, around or onto obstacles such as stairs, appropriate and efficient appro...
Philipp Michel, Joel E. Chestnutt, Satoshi Kagami,...
An approach is presented for exploring an unknown, arbitrary surface in three-dimensional (3D) space by a mobile robot. The main contributions are (1) an analysis of the capabilit...
Kiriakos N. Kutulakos, Charles R. Dyer, Vladimir J...
This paper deals with an omni-directional sensor based on a camera and a mirror generated with a surface of revolution. The requirements the device must fulfill result from its use...
The lure of using motion vision as a fundamental element in the perception of space drives this effort to use flow features as the sole cues for robot mobility. Real-time estimat...
David Coombs, Martin Herman, Tsai-Hong Hong, Maril...