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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Mobile robotics"”.
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A mobile robotics development platform
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.
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Efficient Motion Planning for Wheeled Mobile Robotics
Nowadays, the field of wheeled robotics is undergoing an impressive growth and development. Different hardware and software components are being developed and applied in various contexts, including assistive robotics, industrial robotics, automotive, ... Motion Planning is a fundamental aspect for …
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A distributed control network for a mobile robotics platform
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.
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Geometry-based video prediction with camera motion for mobile robotics
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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Online Information-Aware Motion Planning with Model Improvement for Uncertain Mobile Robotics
Mobile robots increasingly interact with unstructured, uncertain environments while performing useful tasks. To navigate their surroundings these robots rely on models of their own motion which themselves might not be perfectly known. Some of these uncertainties are considered within the context of …
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The Creation of a low-cost, reliable platform for mobile robotics research
… on the problem of life-long robot mapping. The robotics platform used is the iRobot Create. This robot also employs the PrimeSensor, a sensor with the ability to provide a pixel-matched, colored depth field in real time. This sensor was later purchased by Microsoft and leveraged in their popular …
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Investigation into the use of the Microsoft Kinect and the Hough transform for mobile robotics
… therefore not suitable for obstacle avoidance in mobile robotics. The suitability of the process for SLAM was also investigated. It was found to be unsuitable, as planar environments did not have distinct features which could be tracked, whilst the complex environment was not planar, and therefore …
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Research, design and construction of a team of Small Size League Soccer robots for RoboCup Soccer
… kown human sport to extend the capabilities of mobile robotics as well as automated computer control. The game creates a environment where technically complicated miniature soccer robots are required to perform the tasks based on computer algorithms to outsmart similar systems. SSL creates a …
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The design and implementation of a laser range-finder array for robotics applications
… finder array to measure height and tilt for mobile robotics applications. We then present a robust, scalable algorithm for extracting height and tilt measurements from the range finder data. We calibrate the sensors using a precision two-axis system, and evaluate the capabilities of the …
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Design of Control Algorithms for Automation of a Full Dimension Continuouis Haulage System
… solutions to the widely known 3-part question in mobile robotics comprising of "Where am I" "Where should I be" and "How do I get there". This can be achieved by implementing automation algorithms. Automation algorithms or control algorithms are vital components of any autonomous vehicle. Design …
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USING THE XBOX KINECT TO DETECT FEATURES OF THE FLOOR SURFACE
… of a smart wheelchair robot. Recent advances in mobile robotics have brought about the development of smart wheelchairs to assist disabled people, allowing them to be more independent. Because these robots have a human occupant, safety is the highest priority, and the robot must be able to detect …
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Adaptive swing-up and balancing control of acrobot systems
The field of underactuated robotics has become the core of agile mobile robotics research. Significant past effort has been put into understanding the swing-up control of the acrobot system. This thesis implements an online, adaptive swing-up and balancing controller with no previous knowledge of …
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Robotic Platform for Internal Inspection
… itself. The platform is a versatile device for mobile robotics research and development that supports a wide variety of instrumentation and payloads. Variable height control of the payload is achieved with a scissor lift assembly that provides accurate positioning of equipped sensors and …
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Embedded machine vision - a parallel architecture approach -
… is one of the essential sensory functions in mobile robotics. To implement high performance vision processing, algorithms and hardware architectures must be well matched to exploit computational parallelism. Operations can be mapped into custom functional units to achieve higher performance …
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Indexical grounding for a mobile robot
We have outfitted a mobile research robot with several sensors and algorithms designed to facilitate small- and large-scale navigation and natural language interaction. We begin with a parser using a large, hand-crafted English grammar and lexicon. We then add a standard gradient navigation …
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Localized Visual Aberration Detection and Suppression Dataset for UAV Perception Systems
… is an essential component of autonomous mobile robotics platforms. Due to size and weight limitations, a monocular camera system is typically best suited to collect this data. However, using these setups for depth perception can result in poor depth mapping in areas of the frame where the …
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Manipulation-Driven Adaptation for Enhancing Mobile Robot Efficiency and Versatility
Terrestrial mobile robotics are crucial to a range of missions including planetary exploration, search and rescue, logistics, and national security. Many of these missions require the robot to operate on a broad variety of terrain. Physical adaptation can enable a robot to intelligently interact …
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Pipe Inspection Automation with Mobile Ground Vehicles
… goal of this research is to develop a series of mobile robotics projects for inspection of infrastructure to release humans of dirty, dangerous and dull tasks and give them more time to think and to create. To achieve this, one should consider the design of two different elements which are …
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Detection of dynamic obstacles out of the line of sight for autonomous vehicles to increase safety based on shadows
… corners are a potential source for collisions in mobile robotics applications such as autonomous vehicles. In this work, we address the problem of anticipating such potential collisions by proposing a vision-based detection algorithm for obstacles which are outside of a vehicle's direct line of …
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