The recent activity in the area of autonomous vehicle navigation has initiated a series of
reactions that stirred the automobile industry, pushing for the fast commercialization of this …

Ground segmentation is crucial for terrestrial mobile platforms to perform navigation or
neighboring object recognition. Unfortunately, the ground is not flat, as it features steep …

A clean and reliable map of the environment is key for a variety of robotic tasks including
localization, path planning, and navigation. Dynamic objects are an inherent part of our …

Ground segmentation is an important pre-processing task for local environment perception
using 3D LIDAR, and it is particularly challenging in unstructured environments with rough …

Battery life-time extension is a primary design objective for portable systems. Traditionally,
battery life-time has been prolonged mainly by reducing average power consumption of …

This paper presents a natural framework for information sharing in cooperative tasks
involving humans and robots. In this framework, all information gathered over time by a …

The generation of accurate terrain maps while navigating over off-road, irregular terrains is a
complex challenge, due to the difficulties in the estimation of the pose of the laser …

Point cloud ground segmentation is a key preprocessing task in mobile laser scanning
(MLS)-based measurement and sensing. However, ground segmentation currently faces …

Ground segmentation is a fundamental task in the field of 3D perception using 3D LiDAR
sensors. Several ground segmentation methods have been proposed, but they often suffer …

Bayesian decentralized data fusion (DDF) is challenging to implement for problems
modeled by arbitrarily complex non-Gaussian pdfs, especially those with hierarchical or …