TRAVERSE-Voice Commanded Self Navigating Indoor Robot

On - line , incremental visual scene understanding for an indoor navigating robot

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Indoor robot navigating amidst humans with uncertainties and intents: A collision cone approach

The Ultrasonic Navigating Robot, WALKY

ABSTRACT A mobile robot system is being designed to work in a chemical laboratory environment for people with physical disabilities. We have found that chemical laboratories are good workplace alternatives to the office environment (see BACKGROUND). The main requirement for the workplace is to keep the work meaningful after the workplace has been robotized. The reasons for working with a mobile...

DERVISH - An Office-Navigating Robot

ion The real world is so finely grained that any attempt to plan using a highly detailed model of reality is doomed because of enormous computational complexity. DERVISH avoids this pitfall by reasoning about an abstraction of the real world that is based on a quantization of the world into a set of states; each state corresponds to a node on the topological map or a hallway segment between two...

Navigating Indoor with Maps: Representations and Processes

Novice participants were given a schematic map of a multilevel building and performed a series of wayfinding tasks. Consistent with previous research, we found a mix of wayfinding strategies adopted by participants. Further analysis showed that participants incrementally developed and used mental representations of the building by integrating perceptual cues and memories of visited locations wi...