Accurate localization of a vehicle is a fundamental challenge and one of the most important
tasks of mobile robots. For autonomous navigation, motion tracking, and obstacle detection …

Future lunar/planetary exploration missions will demand mobile robots with the capability of
reaching more challenging science targets and driving farther per day than the current Mars …

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 …

A common prerequisite for many vision-based driver assistance systems is the knowledge of
the vehicle's own movement. In this paper we propose a novel approach for estimating the …

This paper describes a visual odometry algorithm for estimating frame-to-frame camera
motion from successive stereo image pairs. The algorithm differs from most visual odometry …

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

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission landed the Curiosity rover on Mars on
August 6, 2012. As of August 6, 2019 (sol 2488), Curiosity has driven 21,318.5 meters over a …

This paper presents a new methodology where machine learning is used for detecting
various levels of slip in the context of planetary exploration robotic missions. This …

Abstract Visual SLAM (Simultaneously Localization and Mapping) is a solution to achieve
localization and mapping of robots simultaneously. Significant achievements have been …

It is anticipated that the Mars Science Laboratory rover, named Curiosity, will traverse 10–20
km on the surface of Mars during its primary mission. In preparation for this traverse, Earth …