Nowadays, the field of mobile robotics is experiencing a quick evolution, and a variety of
autonomous vehicles is available to solve different tasks. The advances in computer vision …

Navigation is an essential capability for autonomous robots. In particular, visual navigation
has been a major research topic in robotics because cameras are lightweight, power …

In this work, a framework is proposed to build topological models in mobile robotics, using
an omnidirectional vision sensor as the only source of information. The model is structured …

A model of visual navigation in ants is presented which is based on a simple network
predicting the changes of a visual scene under translatory movements. The model contains …

Feature-based and holistic methods present two fundamentally different approaches to
relative-pose estimation from pairs of camera images. Until now, there has been a lack of …

Local visual homing methods can be used in the context of topological maps to travel
between neighboring locations. These methods take two images as input and produce a …

Abstract War** (Franz et al., Biological Cybernetics 79 (3), 191–202, 1998b) and 2D-
war** (Möller, Robotics and Autonomous Systems 57 (1), 87–101, 2009) are effective …

Visual homing navigation has been a challenging issue in indoor localization and
navigation. Inspired by insect navigation, the snapshot model was introduced for homing …

Nowadays, the design of fully autonomous mobile robots is a key discipline. Building a
robust model of the unknown environment is an important ability the robot must develop …

Visual homing is the ability of an agent to return to a goal position by comparing the currently
viewed image with an image captured at the goal, known as the snapshot image. In this …