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Requirements for building an ontology for autonomous robots

Purpose - IEEE Ontologies for Robotics and Automation Working Group were divided into subgroups that were in charge of studying industrial robotics, service robotics and autonomous robotics. This paper aims to present the work in-progress developed by the ...

Emerald Group Publishing Ltd2016

Autonomous Vehicle Dynamic Model-Based Navigation for Small UAVs

Jan Skaloud, Mehran Khaghani

This paper presents a novel approach to autonomous navigation for small UAVs, with no extra sensor added to the conventional INS/GNSS setup. The proposed method significantly increases the accuracy and reliability of autonomous navigation, especially for s ...

2016

Observability analysis of 3D AUV trimming trajectories in the presence of ocean currents using range and depth measurements

António Pedro Rodrigues de Aguiar

We analyze the observability properties of the kinematic model of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) moving in 3D, under the influence of ocean currents, using range and depth measurements. The results obtained shed light into the types of trajectories ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015

A method for ego-motion estimation in micro-hovering platforms flying in very cluttered environments

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Adrien Briod

We aim at developing autonomous miniature hovering flying robots capable of navigating in unstructured GPS-denied environments. A major challenge is the miniaturization of the embedded sensors and processors that allow such platforms to fly by themselves. ...

Springer Verlag2015

DexROV: Dexterous Undersea Inspection and Maintenance in Presence of Communication Latencies

Sylvain Calinon, Ajay Kumar Tanwani

Underwater inspection and maintenance (e.g. in the oil & gas industry) are demanding and costly activities for which ROV based setups are often deployed in addition or in substitution to deep divers - contributing to operations risks and costs cutting. How ...

2015

Using inertial sensors for reconstructing 3D full-body movement in sports - possibilities and limitations on the example of alpine ski racing

Kamiar Aminian, Benedikt Fasel

The present study investigates if inertial sensors could be used for reconstructing 3D full body movements in sports. On the example of alpine ski racing, it was demonstrated that inertial sensors allow computing meaningful parameters related to a skier’s ...

2015

Flexible triangular formation keeping of marine robotic vehicles using range measurements.

Colin Neil Jones, Jorge Miguel Dias Almeida Rodrigues Soares, Francisco Fernandes Castro Rego

This paper addresses the problem of keeping an autonomous marine vehicle in a moving triangular formation by regulating its position with respect to two leader vehicles. The follower vehicle has no prior knowledge of the path described by the leaders but h ...

2014

Design and Implementation of a Range-Based Formation Controller for Marine Robots

Alcherio Martinoli, Jorge Miguel Dias Almeida Rodrigues Soares

There is considerable worldwide interest in the use of groups of autonomous marine vehicles to carry our challenging mission scenarios, of which marine habitat mapping of complex, non-structured environments is a representative example. Relative positionin ...

Springer International Publishing2014

Satellite remote sensing of Antarctic sea-ice roughness using scatterometer data

Katherine Colby Leonard, Ernesto Trujillo Gomez

While sea-ice concentration is frequently observed from polar orbiting passive microwave satellite instruments, equivalent large-scale information on sea-ice sub-metre-scale roughness is currently unknown. Roughness on this scale is closely related to sea- ...

2014

A robotic platform for lower limb optical motion tracking in open space

Hannes Bleuler, Mohamed Bouri, Jeremy Olivier, Amalric Louis Ortlieb

Characterization of gait is largely used for research on locomotion or for clinical improvement and follow up. There exists two main technologies for measurement of the kinematics of walking: IMU systems and optical tracking. Inertial measurement units are ...

2014

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