We describe a novel robotic endoscope system. It can be used to observe a wide area without moving or bending the endoscope. The system consists of a laparoscope with zoom facility...
Etsuko Kobayashi, Ken Masamune, Ichiro Sakuma, Tak...
A robotic chauffeur should reason about spatial information with a variety of scales, dimensions, and ontologies. Rich representations of both the quantitative and qualitative cha...
Patrick Beeson, Matt MacMahon, Joseph Modayil, Ani...
Too narrow, the productivity-oriented vision guiding ubiquitous computing should be replaced or enriched with humanistic aspects. We discuss the role of Maslow's hierarchy of...
This paper presents an appearance–based method to automatically determine places from vision data for topological mapping. The approach exploits the continuity of the visual app...
Abstract-- Learning by imitation and learning from demonstration have received considerable attention in robotics. However, very little research has been in the direction of provid...