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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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ICRA
2005
IEEE
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15 years 3 months ago
Multifunctional Whisker Arrays for Distance Detection, Terrain Mapping, and Object Feature Extraction
: Several species of animals use whiskers to accurately navigate and explore objects in the absence of vision. We have developed inexpensive arrays of artificial whiskers based on ...
Aimee Schultz, Joseph Solomon, Michael A. Peshkin,...
AAAI
2004
14 years 11 months ago
Self-Organizing Visual Maps
This paper deals with automatically learning the spatial distribution of a set of images. That is, given a sequence of images acquired from well-separated locations, how can they ...
Robert Sim, Gregory Dudek
IJCAI
1997
14 years 11 months ago
Learning Topological Maps with Weak Local Odometric Information
cal maps provide a useful abstraction for robotic navigation and planning. Although stochastic mapscan theoreticallybe learned using the Baum-Welch algorithm,without strong prior ...
Hagit Shatkay, Leslie Pack Kaelbling
IJRR
2011
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14 years 4 months ago
Visual-Inertial Sensor Fusion: Localization, Mapping and Sensor-to-Sensor Self-calibration
Visual and inertial sensors, in combination, are able to provide accurate motion estimates and are well-suited for use in many robot navigation tasks. However, correct data fusion...
Jonathan Kelly, Gaurav S. Sukhatme