Monday, December 31, 2007

2D Localization of Outdoor Mobile Robots Using 3D Laser Range Data

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Takeshi Takahashi Master's thesis Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2007 Abstract Robot localization in outdoor envir...
Sunday, December 30, 2007

Georgia Tech PhD thesis: Acoustical Awareness for Intelligent Robotic Action

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Eric Martinson, Acoustical Awareness for Intelligent Robotic Action, PhD Thesis, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Nov....
Friday, December 28, 2007

Door safety system

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As the reinstallation of the computer which contains the database of our card data, I have to rebuild the database(I will make more backup t...
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Team MIT Urban Challenge

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This technical report describes Team MIT’s approach to the DARPA Urban Challenge. We have developed a novel strategy for using many inexpens...
Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Lab Meeting December 18th, 2007 (Leo): Augmented State Tracking

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I will try to show some simulation result of augmented state tracking.
Monday, December 17, 2007

Lab meeting December 18th:The Autonomous City Explorer Project: Aims and System Overview

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Abstract—As robots are gradually leaving highly structuredfactory environments and moving into human populated environments,they need to pos...

Lab Meeting December 18th, 2007(ZhenYu):Spherical Catadioptric Arrays: Construction, Multi-View Geometry, and Calibration

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Title: Spherical Catadioptric Arrays: Construction, Multi-View Geometry, and Calibration Author: Lanman, Douglas ...

Lab Meeting December 18th, 2007 (Atwood): Maximum Entropy Model and Conditional Random Field

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I will talk about the relation between Maximum Entropy Model and Conditional Random Field, and my recent experiments. Abstract: In this chap...

Lab Meeting December 18th, 2007 (Jeff):Progress report

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I will try to show some test of my recent work. And I will try to point out some problems of EKF-SLAM and some limitations about it.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Lab Meeting 11 December (Der-Yeuan): Registration of Colored 3D Point Clouds with a Kernel-based Extension to the Normal Distributions Transform

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Abstract We present a new algorithm for scan registration of colored 3D point data which is an extension to the Normal Distributions Transfo...
Thursday, December 06, 2007

FRC Seminar - December 12 - Autonomous Peat Moss Harvesting

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FRC Seminar - Autonomous Peat Moss Harvesting Speaker: Carl Wellington NREC Commercialization Specialist National Robotics Engineering Ce...
Saturday, December 01, 2007

Door safety system

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We could start to operate the system now! (As almost every member is rigistered now.) Things to be concerned: 1. Press the red bottom at the...

WIRED MAGAZINE -- Getting a Grip

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Building the Ultimate Robotic Hand A 6-foot-tall, one-armed robot named Stair 1.0 balances on a modified Segway platform in the doorway of a...
Friday, November 30, 2007

IROS 2007: Spatial Reasoning for Human Robot Interaction

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Emrah Akin Sisbot, Luis F. Marin and Rachid Alami Abstract Robots’ interaction with humans raises new issuesfor geometrical reasoning wh...
Tuesday, November 27, 2007

[Intelligence Seminar]Activity Recognition from Wearable Sensors

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Intelligence Seminar Title: Activity Recognition from Wearable Sensors Date: Nov 29 Speaker: Dieter Fox is Associate Professor and Directo...
Monday, November 26, 2007

[IROS'07]Feature Selection in Conditional Random Fields for Activity Recognition

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Title: Feature Selection in Conditional Random Fields for Activity Recognition Author: Vail, Douglas Carnegie Mellon Univ. Lafferty, John...
Sunday, November 25, 2007

VASC Seminar : Object Recognition by Scene Alignment

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Bryan Russell MIT Monday, Nov 26, 3:30pm, NSH 1507 Current object recognition systems can only recognize a limited number of object categori...
Saturday, November 24, 2007

IROS 2007 : A Spatio-Temporal Probabilistic Model for Multi-Sensor Object

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Bertrand Douillard, Dieter Fox, Fabio Ramos Abstract: This paper presents a general framework for multi-sensor object recognition through a...
Friday, November 23, 2007

IROS 2007: Detection and Tracking of Multiple Pedestrians

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Xiaowei Shao, Huijing Zhao, Katsuyuki Nakamura, Kyoichiro Katabira, Ryosuke Shibasaki and Yuri Nakagawa Abstract: We propose a novel system ...

IROS 2007: An Augmented State Vector Approach to GPS-Based Localization

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Francesco Capezio, Antonio Sgorbissa, Renato Zaccaria DIST – University of Genova, Italy Abstract: The paper focuses on the localization sub...