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RAS
2002
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14 years 9 months ago
Exploration method using harmonic functions
Harmonic functions provide optimal potential maps for robot navigation in a previously explored static environment. Here we investigate the performance of an algorithm for explora...
Edson Prestes e Silva Jr., Paulo Martins Engel, Ma...
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AAAI
1990
14 years 10 months ago
LOGnets: A Hybrid Graph Spatial Representation for Robot Navigation
In this article we present a novel, hybrid graph spatial representation for robot navigation. This representation enables our mobile robot to build a model of its surroundings whi...
Peter K. Malkin, Sanjaya Addanki
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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15 years 3 months ago
Learning and Evaluation of the Approach Vector for Automatic Grasp Generation and Planning
— In this paper, we address the problem of automatic grasp generation for robotic hands where experience and shape primitives are used in synergy so to provide a basis not only f...
Staffan Ekvall, Danica Kragic
IROS
2008
IEEE
169views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
15 years 4 months ago
Smooth Nearness-Diagram Navigation
— This paper presents a new method for reactive collision avoidance for mobile robots in complex and cluttered environments. Our technique is to adapt the “divide and conquerâ€...
Joseph W. Durham, Francesco Bullo
SPATIALCOGNITION
2004
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Modelling Models of Robot Navigation Using Formal Spatial Ontology
Abstract. In this paper we apply a formal ontological framework in order to deconstruct two prominent approaches to navigation from cognitive robotics, the Spatial Semantic Hierarc...
John A. Bateman, Scott Farrar