Now in its third edition, this textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the multidisciplinary
field of mobile robotics, which lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence, computational …

This paper describes a working vision-based mobile robot that navigates and autonomously
explores its environment while building occupancy grid maps of the environment. We …

In this paper, we provide a systematic study of the task of sensor planning for object search.
The search agent's knowledge of object location is encoded as a discrete probability density …

Consider the problem of visually finding an object in a mostly unknown space with a mobile
robot. It is clear that all possible views and images cannot be examined in a practical …

We describe a robot system that can navigate in indoor environments, such as office
buildings and laboratories, without having a detailed map of its environment and which can …

Two stereo vision-based mobile robots navigate and autonomously explore their
environment safely while building occupancy grid maps of the environment. A novel …

Although mobile robot navigation in unstructured environments is an open problem, robotic
systems can be developed which operate in relatively unstructured but known environments …

This paper describes a new sensor that combines visual information from a CCD camera
with sparse distance measurements from an infra-red laser range-finder. The camera and …

The ARK mobile robot project has designed and implemented a series of mobile robots
capable of navigating within industrial environments without relying on artificial landmarks or …

ARK (Autonomous Robot for a Known environment), is a visually-guided mobile robot which
is being constructed as part of the Precarn project in mobile robotics. ARK operates in a …