— In this paper we present a novel approach to perform indoor self-localization using reference omnidirectional images. We only need one omnidirectional image of the whole scene ...
Abstract. This paper concerns the exploration of a natural environment by a mobile robot equipped with both a video camera and a range sensor (stereo or laser range finder); we fo...
Carlos Parra, Rafael Murrieta-Cid, Michel Devy, Ma...
An audio system is one of the basic components of a humanoid robot designed for natural interaction. For many interaction purposes it is sufficient to use the sound detection and...
In this paper, we describe methods to localize a mobile robot in an indoor environment from visual information. An appearance-based approach is adopted in which the environment is ...
— Localization for low cost humanoid or animal-like personal robots has to rely on cheap sensors and has to be robust to user manipulations of the robot. We present a visual loca...