Abstract— This paper describes a hierarchical planner deployed on a mobile manipulation system. The main idea is a two-level hierarchy combining a global planner which provides r...
Ross A. Knepper, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Matthew ...
We study the multi-frame structure from motion problem when the camera translates on a plane with small baselines and arbitrary rotations. This case shows up in many practical appl...
— We consider the problem of autonomously flying a helicopter in indoor environments. Navigation in indoor settings poses two major challenges. First, real-time perception and r...
Sai Prashanth Soundararaj, Arvind K. Sujeeth, Ashu...
— Safe autonomous flight is essential for widespread acceptance of aircraft that must fly close to the ground. We have developed a method of collision avoidance that can be use...
Sebastian Scherer, Sanjiv Singh, Lyle Chamberlain,...
—Vision-aided inertial navigation systems (V-INSs) can provide precise state estimates for the 3-D motion of a vehicle when no external references (e.g., GPS) are available. This...