Research and development in Collaborative Indoor Positioning Systems (CIPSs) is growing
steadily due to their potential to improve on the performance of their non-collaborative …

We survey the recent work on micro unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), a fast-growing field
in robotics, outlining the opportunities for research and applications, along with the scientific …

Mobile robot navigation is typically regarded as a geometric problem, in which the robot's
objective is to perceive the geometry of the environment in order to plan collision-free paths …

Visual recognition ecosystems (eg ImageNet, Pascal, COCO) have undeniably played a
prevailing role in the evolution of modern computer vision. We argue that interactive and …

Enabling robots to autonomously navigate complex environments is essential for real-world
deployment. Prior methods approach this problem by having the robot maintain an internal …

It has been long known that fusing information from multiple sensors for robot navigation
results in increased robustness and accuracy. However, accurate calibration of the sensor …

Urban search and rescue missions raise special requirements on robotic systems. Small
aerial systems provide essential support to human task forces in situation assessment and …

We describe a prototype 75 g micro quadrotor with onboard attitude estimation and control
that operates autonomously with an external localization system. The motivation for …

RGB-D cameras provide both a color image and per-pixel depth estimates. The richness of
their data and the recent development of low-cost sensors have combined to present an …

We report recent results from field experiments conducted with a team of ground and aerial
robots toward the collaborative mapping of an earthquake damaged building. The goal of …