Lighting‐invariant adaptive route following using iterative closest point matching

P Krüsi, B Bücheler, F Pomerleau… - Journal of Field …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Topological/metric route following, also called teach and repeat (T&R), enables long‐range
autonomous navigation even without globally consistent localization. In the teach pass, the …

Lighting‐invariant visual teach and repeat using appearance‐based lidar

C McManus, P Furgale, B Stenning… - Journal of Field …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Visual Teach and Repeat (VT&R) is an effective method to enable a vehicle to repeat any
previously driven route using just a visual sensor and without a global positioning system …

Planning using a network of reusable paths: A physical embodiment of a rapidly exploring random tree

BE Stenning, C McManus… - Journal of Field Robotics, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Growing a network of reusable paths is a novel approach to navigation that allows a mobile
robot to autonomously seek distant goals in unmapped, GPS‐denied environments, which …

Anomaly detection techniques for database protection against insider threats

A Sallam, Q ** a navigational framework called Network of Reusable Paths that
enables a rover to revisit any previously driven-to location quickly and cheaply. This place …

[PDF][PDF] Place revisiting for planetary rovers: An enabling technology and field testing of three mission concepts

TD Barfoot, BE Stenning, JD Gammell… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - asrl.utias.utoronto.ca
Planetary rovers to date have been operated mainly in a serial mode; they are driven from
one place to the next, away from the lander, and seldom return to previously visited places …