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ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Autonomous geocaching: navigation and goal finding in outdoor domains
This paper describes an autonomous robot system designed to solve the challenging task of geocaching. Geocaching involves locating a goal object in an outdoor environment given on...
James Neufeld, Michael Sokolsky, Jason Roberts, Ad...
TROB
2008
86views more  TROB 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
Visual SLAM for Flying Vehicles
The ability to learn a map of the environment is important for numerous types of robotic vehicles. In this paper, we address the problem of learning a visual map of the ground usin...
Bastian Steder, Giorgio Grisetti, Cyrill Stachniss...
JIRS
2006
104views more  JIRS 2006»
14 years 9 months ago
Symbolic Trajectory Description in Mobile Robotics
Abstract. Autonomous mobile robot navigation systems are based on three principal kinds of techniques: map-based navigation, map-building-based navigation and mapless navigation. W...
Gilbert Pradel, Philippe Hoppenot
IROS
2008
IEEE
95views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
15 years 4 months ago
Energy management for indoor hovering robots
— Flying has an advantage when compared to ground based locomotion, as it simplifies the task of overcoming obstacles and allows for rapid coverage of an area while also providi...
James F. Roberts, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario ...
AROBOTS
1999
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14 years 9 months ago
A Robust Analog VLSI Motion Sensor Based on the Visual System of the Fly
Sensing visual motion gives a creature valuable information about its interactions with the environment. Flies in particular use visual motion information to navigate through turbu...
Reid R. Harrison, Christof Koch