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CRV
2006
IEEE
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15 years 10 months ago
Building Local Safety Maps for a Wheelchair Robot using Vision and Lasers
To be useful as a mobility assistant for a human driver, an intelligent robotic wheelchair must be able to distinguish between safe and hazardous regions in its immediate environm...
Aniket Murarka, Joseph Modayil, Benjamin Kuipers
AR
2010
137views more  AR 2010»
15 years 6 months ago
Development of a Visual Odometry System for a Wheeled Robot on Loose Soil using a Telecentric Camera
In this paper, the development of a three-dimensional (3-D) odometry system for wheeled robots on loose soil in an application of planetary exploration is described. When a wheele...
Keiji Nagatani, Ayako Ikeda, Genya Ishigami, Kazuy...
IBERAMIA
2010
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Detection of Multiple People by a Mobile Robot in Dynamic Indoor Environments
Detection of multiple people is a key element for social robot design and it is a requirement for effective human-robot interaction. However, it is not an easy task, especially in...
José Alberto Méndez-Polanco, Ang&eac...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
118views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
15 years 4 months ago
Autonomous door opening and plugging in with a personal robot
Abstract— We describe an autonomous robotic system capable of navigating through an office environment, opening doors along the way, and plugging itself into electrical outlets ...
Wim Meeussen, Melonee Wise, Stuart Glaser, Sachin ...
IROS
2009
IEEE
149views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
16 years 29 days ago
Optical flow on a flapping wing robot
— Optical flow sensing techniques are promising for obstacle avoidance, distance regulation, and moving target tracking, particularly for small mobile robots with limited power ...
Fernando Garcia Bermudez, Ronald S. Fearing