— Visually impaired find their navigation difficult as they often lack the needed information for bypassing obstacles and hazards. Electronic Travel Aids (ETAs) are devices that ...
G. Balakrishnan, G. Sainarayanan, R. Nagarajan, Sa...
This paper discusses the application of robotic technologies to an evacuation assistance task. We describe how this kind of task differs from the more prevalent search and rescue ...
Abstract--Flocking algorithms essentially consist of three components: alignment, cohesion, and separation. To track a desired trajectory, the flock center should move along the de...
One important design decision for the development of autonomously navigating mobile robots is the choice of the representation of the environment. This includes the question which...
The increasing ubiquity of mobile devices has led to an explosion in the development of applications tailored to the particular needs of individual users. As the research communit...