This paper addresses the problem of real-time position and orientation estimation of networked mobile robots in two-dimensional Euclidean space with simultaneous tracking of a rigid unknown object based on exterocep...
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This paper addresses the problem of real-time position and orientation estimation of networked mobile robots in two-dimensional Euclidean space with simultaneous tracking of a rigid unknown object based on exteroceptive sensory information extracted from distributed vision systems. The sufficient and necessary conditions for team localization are proposed. A localization and object tracking approach based on statistical operators and graph searching algorithms is presented for a team of robots localized with het- erogeneous sensors. The approach was implemented in an experimental platform consisting of car-like mobile robots equipped with omnidirectional video cameras and IEEE 802.11b wireless networking. The experimental results validate the approach.
In this letter, we present the system infrastructure for a swarm of quadrotors, which perform all estimation on board using monocular visual inertial odometry. This is a novel system since it does not require an exter...
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An array force sensor mounted on the gripper of a robot can provide information about the contact taking place with the environment. Limited success has been attained in the use of such sensors in identifying and loca...
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An array force sensor mounted on the gripper of a robot can provide information about the contact taking place with the environment. Limited success has been attained in the use of such sensors in identifying and localizing objects. Another promising use is in the provision of tactile information for telerobotic operation. Experiments have been carried out that test a variety of tactile display methods examining human performance in judgements about robotic manipulation. The pattern of performance across the different display methods suggests that the use of the tactile data is dependent on the availability of an intersensory model of the environment.
Nine-degrees-of-freedom (9-DoF) object pose and size estimation is crucial for enabling augmented reality and robotic manipulation. Category-level methods have received extensive research attention due to their potent...
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This paper describes an autonomous system for exploration and navigation within networks of tunnels, as those typically found in underground mines and caves. In the exploration mode, a remotely located supervisor inst...
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This paper describes an autonomous system for exploration and navigation within networks of tunnels, as those typically found in underground mines and caves. In the exploration mode, a remotely located supervisor instructs the system to move through successive sections of the network, gathering range data that is, then, concatenated into 2D/3D survey maps of the environment. In the navigation mode, the supervisor specifies high-level missions on the previously acquired survey maps. A motion planner, then, translates each mission into a set of consecutive navigation actions, separated by natural landmarks. Mission execution consists of detecting landmarks, self-localizing and performing the planned navigation actions.
We present a new integrated approach to the two-dimensional part segmentation, shape, and motion estimation of moving multipart objects. Our technique exploits the relationship between the geometry and the observed de...
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We present a new integrated approach to the two-dimensional part segmentation, shape, and motion estimation of moving multipart objects. Our technique exploits the relationship between the geometry and the observed deformations of the apparent contour of a moving multipart object and its structure. The novelty of the technique is that no prior model of the object or of its parts is employed. We develop a Part Segmentation Algorithm (PSA) that recursively recovers all the moving parts of an object by monitoring and reasoning over the changes of its deforming apparent contour. To parameterize and segment over time a deforming apparent contour, we fit initially a single deformable model whose global and local deformations over time allow us to hypothesize an underlying part structure. This hypothesis is verified by further monitoring the relative motion among the model's parts and the satisfaction of certain criteria. Upon verifying the part hypothesis, the initial deformable model is split into two or more models that better fit the apparent contour. This recursive operation allows the refinement over time of the number and shape of the extracted parts. When multiple deformable models are used to model the apparent contour of a multipart object, there is an uncertainty concerning the deformable model to which the data points should apply forces to. To address this problem, we present a new algorithm for force assignment that assigns forces from the data to multiple models. This algorithm allows partial overlap between the parts' models and the determination of their joint location. Finally, the effectiveness of the approach is demonstrated through a series of experiments involving a variety of objects. (C) 1997 Academic Press.
This paper examines the possibility of using low-cost commercial off-the-shelf audio recording equipment in combination with machine learning techniques to discover the presence of hostile UAVs. A convolutional neural...
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This notes focuses on the issue of whether or not the state of a plant can be estimated when the inputs of communication channel involve noise and disturbance simultaneously. It turns out to calculate the maximum capa...
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This article proposes an efficient 3-D object detection algorithm for LiDAR point clouds in the field of autonomous driving. Currently, despite significant performance improvements in 3-D LiDAR object detection method...
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This article proposes an efficient 3-D object detection algorithm for LiDAR point clouds in the field of autonomous driving. Currently, despite significant performance improvements in 3-D LiDAR object detection methods, there are still problems that have impact on 3-D detection accuracy. Typically, since the sampling process and grouping process introduced background points, the final regression step in the detection task would be greatly affected. To address this problem, a method named PR-SSD is proposed to retain more important foreground points during the training pipeline, improving detection accuracy. Specifically, the proposed approach utilizes prior information to guide semantic sampling, referred to as prior distributed semantic sampling (PDSS). This mechanism encourages the network to prioritize foreground targets in regression. In addition, a module named radius-aware attention multiscale grouping (RAMSG) is designed to dynamically reassign grouping weights for multiscale features. In other words, the network has adaptive detection capabilities for targets of different scales. Furthermore, PR-SSD is a single-stage detector which can be trained end-to-end. Finally, extensive experiments and evaluations on large-scale benchmarks KITTI demonstrate that our proposed method significantly enhanced 3-D object detector. In KITTI testing set, PR-SSD achieves 89.69%, 45.08%, and 80.01% detection performance for cars, pedestrians, and cyclists.
The loop closure problem in 2D LiDAR simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is interesting yet to be solved efficiently, as it suffers from a lack of information in 2D laser rangefinder readings. For this reason...
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