Intelligent vehicles (IVs) have gained worldwide attention due to their increased
convenience, safety advantages, and potential commercial value. Despite predictions of …

Path planning is one of the most important problems to be explored in unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) for finding an optimal path between source and destination. Although, in …

Humanoid robots, unmanned rovers, entertainment pets, drones, and so on are great
examples of mobile robots. They can be distinguished from other robots by their ability to …

Top-down visual attention mechanisms have been used extensively in image captioning
and visual question answering (VQA) to enable deeper image understanding through fine …

Self-driving vehicles are a maturing technology with the potential to reshape mobility by
enhancing the safety, accessibility, efficiency, and convenience of automotive transportation …

Despite the recent successes in robotics, artificial intelligence and computer vision, a
complete artificial agent necessarily must include active perception. A multitude of ideas and …

This well-accepted introduction to computational geometry is a textbook for high-level
undergraduate and low-level graduate courses. The focus is on algorithms and hence the …

Planning algorithms are impacting technical disciplines and industries around the world,
including robotics, computer-aided design, manufacturing, computer graphics, aerospace …

Before using interval analysis as a basic tool in the following chapters, we shall now
introduce its main concepts. Section 2.2 recalls fundamental notions on set operators, set …

This paper describes a collision avoidance algorithm for planning a safe path for a
polyhedral object moving among known polyhedral objects. The algorithm transforms the …