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Containment Control in Mobile Networks

Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate

In this paper, the problem of driving a collection of mobile robots to a given target destination is studied. In particular, we are interested in achieving this transfer in an orderly manner so as to ensure that the agents remain in the convex polytope spa ...

2008

Odor Source Localization with Mobile Robots

Alcherio Martinoli, Thomas Lochmatter, Xavier Raemy

Because of their excellent olfactory sense, dogs are often used to find bombs, mines, drugs, or people buried by avalanches. For such applications, autonomous mobile robots could be used in the future. Electronic sensors already exist for a wide variety of ...

2007

Knowledge-based Extraction of Area of Expertise for Cooperation in Learning

Roland Siegwart, Masoud Asadpour

Using each other's knowledge and expertise in learning - what we call cooperation in learning- is one of the major existing methods to reduce the number of learning trials, which is quite crucial for real world applications. In situated systems, robots bec ...

2007

Fifty years of self-assembly experimentation

Roderich Gross

In this paper, we review half a century of research on the design of systems displaying (physical) self-assembly of macroscopic components. We report on the experience gained in the study of 22 such systems, exhibiting components ranging from passive mecha ...

USC Information Science Institute2007

3D Vision-based Navigation for Indoor Microflyers

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Antoine Beyeler

Fully autonomous control of ultra-light indoor airplanes has not yet been achieved because the strong limitations on the kind of sensors that can be embedded make it difficult to obtain good estimations of altitude. We propose to revisit altitude control b ...

2007

Towards Real-Time Sensor-Based Path Planning in Highly Dynamic Environments

Roland Siegwart, Björn Jensen, Roland Philippsen

This paper presents work on sensor-based motion planning in initially unknown dynamic environments. Motion detection and probabilistic motion modeling are combined with a smooth navigation function to perform on-line path planning and replanning in clutter ...

2007

Feature-based 3D SLAM

Jan Weingarten

This doctoral thesis deals with an open subproblem of robot navigation, namely simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in three-dimensional space. The goal is to develop a system which is capable of localizing a mobile robot in a reliable way and at t ...

EPFL2006

Stereo-Based Ego-Motion Estimation Using Pixel Tracking and Iterative Closest Point

Roland Siegwart

In this paper, we present a stereovision algorithm for real-time 6DoF ego-motion estimation, which integrates normalized cross-correlation-based feature tracking and 3D stereo information in the well-known Iterative Closest Point (ICP) scheme. The proposed ...

2006

Open-source software-operated CMOS camera for real-time mapping

Jan Skaloud, Hervé Gontran, Nicolas Janvier

Accurate time registration, georeferencing, and instantaneous feature extraction are important challenges for real-time mapping systems. The Geodetic Engineering Laboratory (TOPO) at the EPFL has designed a mobile platform to automatically determine the ge ...

2006

Topological SLAM

Adriana Tapus

This thesis is about topological navigation, more precisely about space representation, perception, localization and mapping. All these elements are needed in order to obtain a robust and reliable framework for navigation. This is essential in order to mov ...

EPFL2005