Author:Burke, Michael G; Bos, NDate:Nov 2011The ability of an agent to self-localise is crucial to any autonomous task where mobility is required. A common set of techniques solving the localisation problem involve the deployment of active beacons or landmarks, which eliminate problems ...Read more
Author:Govender, Natasha; Warrell, J; Torr, P; Nicolls, FDate:Sep 2013For mobile robots to perform certain tasks in human environments, fast and accurate object verification and recognition is essential. Bayesian approaches to active object recognition have proved effective in a number of cases, allowing ...Read more
Author:Mtshali, Mbali; Engelbrecht, ADate:Jan 2010In the development of mobile robotic systems, a robotic architecture plays a crucial role in interconnecting all the sub-systems and controlling the system. The design of robotic architectures for mobile autonomous robots is a challenging and ...Read more
Author:Pancham, A; Withey, Daniel J; Bright, GDate:May 2015The tracking of moving points in image sequences requires unique features that can be easily distinguished. However, traditional feature descriptors are of high dimension, leading to larger storage requirement and slower computation. In this ...Read more