— Autonomous systems situated in the real world often need to recognize, track, and reason about various types of physical objects. In order to allow reasoning at a symbolic leve...
— In this paper, we propose a novel approach for the visual navigation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). In contrast to most available methods, a single perspective camera is us...
Chunrong Yuan, Fabian Recktenwald, Hanspeter A. Ma...
— This paper describes a motion planning algorithm for a quadrotor helicopter flying autonomously without GPS. Without accurate global positioning, the vehicle’s ability to lo...
—Terrain variations can greatly influence autonomous ground vehicle (AGV) performance. However, if the terrain is properly identified, the AGV control systems can be adjusted to ...
— The spiders’ ability of walking and climbing on different surfaces and in different conditions is taken into account in this paper in order to define and study a suitable sp...