Abstract— Mobile robots need maps or other forms of geometric information about the environment to navigate. The mobility sensors (LADAR, stereo, etc.) on these robotic vehicles ...
Bart C. Nabbe, Derek Hoiem, Alexei A. Efros, Marti...
— A mobile robot operating in an urban environment has to navigate around obstacles and hazards. Though a significant amount of work has been done on detecting obstacles, not mu...
A variety of sensors and positioning methods have been developed over the years. Most methods rely on active sensors (such as sonars or lasers) which have range and power restrict...
David P. Miller, Anne Wright, Randy Sargent, Rob C...
— This paper presents a vision based SLAM method by using stereo SFM technique. The proposed method is based on the stereo SFM presented in our former paper. The method do not ne...
People detection and tracking is a key issue for social robot design and effective human robot interaction. This paper addresses the problem of detecting people with a mobile robo...