L Tai, S Li, M Liu - 2016 IEEE/RSJ international conference on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Obstacle avoidance is the core problem for mobile robots. Its objective is to allow mobile robots to explore an unknown environment without colliding into other objects. It is the basis …
Topological maps model the environment as a graph, where nodes are distinctive places of the environment and edges indicate topological relationships between them. They represent …
L Tai, M Liu - 2016 IEEE international conference on real-time …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces a reinforcement learning method for exploring a corridor environment with the depth information from an RGB-D sensor only. The robot controller achieves …
L Tai, M Liu - Robotics and biomimetics, 2016 - Springer
Exploration in an unknown environment is an elemental application for mobile robots. In this paper, we outlined a reinforcement learning method aiming for solving the exploration …
Y Sun, M Liu, MQH Meng - 2014 IEEE International …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the unavailable GPS signals in indoor environments, indoor localization has become an increasingly heated research topic in recent years. Researchers in robotics community …
Accurate perception of the surrounding scene is helpful for robots to make reasonable judgments and behaviours. Therefore, developing effective scene representation and …
Y Zhuang, N Jiang, H Hu, F Yan - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Active environment perception and autonomous place recognition play a key role for mobile robots to operate within a cluttered indoor environment with dynamic changes. This paper …
For robot mapping occupancy grid maps are the most common representation of the environment. However, most existing algorithms for creating such maps assume a fixed …
M Liu, R Siegwart - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Scene recognition problems for mobile robots have been extensively studied. This is important for tasks such as visual topological mapping. Usually, sophisticated key-point …