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HRI
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Robots asking for directions: the willingness of passers-by to support robots
—This paper reports about a human-robot interaction field trial conducted with the autonomous mobile robot ACE (Autonomous City Explorer) in a public place, where the ACE robot ...
Astrid Weiss, Judith Igelsböck, Manfred Tsche...
ESWS
2005
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Web Explanations for Semantic Heterogeneity Discovery
Managing semantic heterogeneity is a complex task. One solution involves matching like terms to each other. We view Match as an operator that takes two graph-like structures (e.g....
Pavel Shvaiko, Fausto Giunchiglia, Paulo Pinheiro ...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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14 years 9 months ago
Hierarchical optimization on manifolds for online 2D and 3D mapping
Abstract— In this paper, we present a new hierarchical optimization solution to the graph-based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem. During online mapping, the a...
Giorgio Grisetti, Rainer Kümmerle, Cyrill Sta...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
142views Robotics» more  ICRA 2003»
15 years 4 months ago
Airborne simultaneous localisation and map building
— This paper presents results of the application of simultaneous localisation and map building (SLAM) for an uninhibited aerial vehicle (UAV). Single vision camera and inertial m...
Jong-Hyuk Kim, Salah Sukkarieh
ICRA
2005
IEEE
106views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
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Towards Topological Exploration of Abandoned Mines
— The need for reliable maps of subterranean spaces too hazardous for humans to occupy has motivated the use of robotic technology as mapping tools. As such, we present a systemi...
Aaron Morris, David Silver, David I. Ferguson, Sco...