Aircraft visual inspection is a procedure that aims at identifying problems with the vehicle
structure. The visual inspection of aircraft is part of the activities of aircraft Maintenance …

For robots to navigate and interact more richly with the world around them, they will likely
require a deeper understanding of the world in which they operate. In robotics and related …

A major challenge to deploying robots widely is navigation in human-populated
environments, commonly referred to as social robot navigation. While the field of social …

Research in the field of social robotics is allowing service robots to operate in environments
with people. In the aim of realizing the vision of humans and robots coexisting in the same …

There are many challenges for robot navigation in densely populated dynamic
environments. This paper presents a survey of the path planning methods for robot …

Target localization in unknown environment is one of the development directions of mobile
robots. Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) can be used to build maps in …

The use of people recognition techniques has become critical in some areas. For instance,
social or assistive robots carry out collaborative tasks in the robotics field. A robot must know …

Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (visual SLAM) has attracted more and more
researchers in recent decades and many state-of-the-art algorithms have been proposed …

Visual localization is a fundamental capability in robotics and has been well studied for
recent decades. Although many state-of-the-art algorithms have been proposed, great …

Simulations and synthetic datasets have historically empower the research in different
service robotics-related problems, being revamped nowadays with the utilization of rich …