Tracking pedestrians is an area of computervision that has attracted a lot of interest in recent years. Many of these work was conducted in the visible spectrum. Some work was also conducted in thermal infrared spect...
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Forward-looking sonar can be used for underwater mapping when water visibility is poor. The generation of an acoustic mosaic of the environment is of high interest when underwater vehicles are used for surveys or sear...
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Forward-looking sonar can be used for underwater mapping when water visibility is poor. The generation of an acoustic mosaic of the environment is of high interest when underwater vehicles are used for surveys or search tasks. Moreover, if the mosaic is generated in real-time it can be used to provide instantaneous location feedback (e.g. to a ROV pilot or to an AUV), to ensure complete coverage of an area or facilitate the immediate location of targets. In this paper, we present an approach for achieving such a real-time mosaicing capability. Our system considers a simplified imaging model and estimates 2D sonar motions from the pairwise registration of sonar frames. The registration is performed by using a Fourier-based technique, avoiding the extraction of features and ensuring a fast implementation. The mosaicing problem is formulated using a pose graph, with the vertices being the sonar image positions and the edges being constraints from the vehicle odometry and the registration of consecutive and non-consecutive frames. The graph is incrementally optimized using the g2o framework and the optimized poses are then used to build the mosaic online. We apply the method on data gathered on real conditions and show that the resulting sonar mosaic closely matches both the offline generated mosaic as well as ground truth measurements while operating under real-time constraints.
This paper presents a solution to the 3D Range-Only beacon localization problem using a Sum of Gaussians (SOG) filter together with an Active Localization method, which is based on the minimization of the beacon posit...
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(纸本)9781479969357
This paper presents a solution to the 3D Range-Only beacon localization problem using a Sum of Gaussians (SOG) filter together with an Active Localization method, which is based on the minimization of the beacon position uncertainty, in order to ensure the problem observability and a fast convergence. The method is applied to autonomously locate a subsea panel and home to it in order to establish visual contact to later launch a visual servoing based docking task. The method is demonstrated through field experiments in a harbor environment with an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) including Ultra-Short Baseline (USBL) ground truth information.
The regularity of everyday tasks enables us to reuse existing solutions for task variations. For instance, most door-handles require the same basic skill (reach, grasp, turn, pull), but small adaptations of the basic ...
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(纸本)9781479969357
The regularity of everyday tasks enables us to reuse existing solutions for task variations. For instance, most door-handles require the same basic skill (reach, grasp, turn, pull), but small adaptations of the basic skill are required to adapt to the variations that exist (e.g. levers vs. knobs). We introduce the algorithm "Simultaneous On-line Discovery and Improvement of Robotic Skills" (SODIRS) that is able to autonomously discover and optimize skill options for such task variations. We formalize the problem in a reinforcement learning context, and use the PI~(BB) algorithm [2] to continually optimize skills with respect to a cost function. SODIRS discovers new subskills, or "skill options", by clustering the costs of trials, and determining whether perceptual features are able to predict which cluster a trial will belong to. This enables SODIRS to build a decision tree, in which the leaves contain skill options for task variations. We demonstrate SODIRS' performance in simulation, as well as on a Meka humanoid robot performing the ball-in-cup task.
This paper presents a cost-effective framework for the prototyping of vision-based quadrotor multi-robot systems, which core characteristics are: modularity, compatibility with different platforms and being flight-pro...
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This paper presents a cost-effective framework for the prototyping of vision-based quadrotor multi-robot systems, which core characteristics are: modularity, compatibility with different platforms and being flight-proven. The framework is fully operative, which is shown in the paper through simulations and real flight tests of up to 5 drones, and was demonstrated with the participation in an international micro-aerial vehicles competition 3 where it was awarded with the First Prize in the Indoors Autonomy Challenge. The motivation of this framework is to allow the developers to focus on their own research by decoupling the development of dependent modules, leading to a more cost-effective progress in the project. The basic instance of the framework that we propose, which is flight-proven with the cost-efficient and reliable platform Parrot AR Drone 2.0 and is open-source, includes several modules that can be reused and modified, such as: a basic sequential mission planner, a basic 2D trajectory planner, an odometry state estimator, localization and mapping modules which obtain absolute position measurements using visual markers, a trajectory controller and a visualization module.
This paper presents a completely autonomous solution to participate in the 2013 International Micro Air Vehicle Indoor Flight Competition (IMAV2013). Our proposal is a modular multi-robot swarm architecture, based on ...
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This paper presents a completely autonomous solution to participate in the 2013 International Micro Air Vehicle Indoor Flight Competition (IMAV2013). Our proposal is a modular multi-robot swarm architecture, based on the Robot Operating System (ROS) software framework, where the only information shared among swarm agents is each robot's position. Each swarm agent consists of an AR Drone 2.0 quadrotor connected to a laptop which runs the software architecture. In order to present a completely visual-based solution the localization problem is simplified by the usage of ArUco visual markers. These visual markers are used to sense and map obstacles and to improve the pose estimation based on the IMU and optical data flow by means of an Extended Kalman Filter localization and mapping method. The presented solution and the performance of the CVG UPM team were awarded with the First Prize in the Indoors Autonomy Challenge of the IMAV2013 competition.
Mammographic image analysis plays an important role in computer-aided breast cancer diagnosis. To improve the existing knowledge, this paper proposes a new efficient pixel-based methodology for tumor vs non-tumor clas...
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Intervention autonomous underwater vehicles (I-AUVs) are a promising platform to perform intervention task in underwater environments, replacing current methods like remotely operate underwater vehicles (ROVs) and man...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781479936472
Intervention autonomous underwater vehicles (I-AUVs) are a promising platform to perform intervention task in underwater environments, replacing current methods like remotely operate underwater vehicles (ROVs) and manned sub-mersibles that are more expensive. This article proposes a complete system including all the necessary elements to perform a valve turning task using an I-AUV. The knowledge of an operator to perform the task is transmitted to an I-AUV by a learning by demonstration (LbD) algorithm. The algorithm learns the trajectory of the vehicle and the end-effector to accomplish the valve turning. The method has shown its feasibility in a controlled environment repeating the learned task with different valves and configurations.
The paper describes a 3D head pose tracking system designed for immersive applications. The proposed system is based on a random forest's head detection and pose regression model. The main novel contributions incl...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781479957521
The paper describes a 3D head pose tracking system designed for immersive applications. The proposed system is based on a random forest's head detection and pose regression model. The main novel contributions include the application, in immersive technologies, of a head tracker using a range data sensor, the Kalman filter and the random forest, with automatic detection of outliers and handling of the missing data. The envisaged applications of the proposed system include data normalization and data acquisition from remote locations in real-time. The latter is described in detail by integrating 3 degrees of freedom robotic camera head with the proposed head tracker. In this instance the proposed non-contact head tracking system is used to control the robotic camera by replicating measured operator's head motion to improve his/her spatial awareness and sense of immersion, with the captured video shown on a head mounted display. The experimental section includes accuracy and robustness analysis. The system's robustness is examined with respect to the head pose outliers and the missing head detections. The effects of the presence of the head mounted displays on the performance of the system is also assessed. Additionally a brief discussion of operators' psycho-physical perception test is also included.
One of the crucial steps in image mosaicing is global alignment, which requires finding the best image registration parameters by employing nonlinear minimization methods over correspondences between overlapping image...
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