—Wheeled-mobile robots operating in human environments typically encounter small steps. Surmounting steps is normally not considered when determining peak torque needs, yet it ca...
Alexander Wilhelm, William W. Melek, Jan Paul Huis...
We present a system that enables applications to discover and obtain information that describes the context of a particular entity (e.g., a user or a device). Our system revolves ...
— This paper presents a geometrical feature detection system to use with conventional 2D laser rangefinders. This system consists of three main modules: data acquisition and pre...
– In this paper, we describe a robot that interacts with humans in a crowded conference environment. The robot detects faces, determines the shirt color of onlooking conference a...
Geoffrey A. Hollinger, Yavor Georgiev, Anthony Man...
— In this paper we present a vision-based approach to self-localization that uses a novel scheme to integrate featurebased matching of panoramic images with Monte Carlo localizat...