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Signal Processing Advances in Robots and Autonomy

  1. Self-localization and object tracking are key technologies for human-robot interactions. Most previous tracking algorithms focus on how to correctly estimate the position, velocity, and acceleration of a movin...

    Authors: Kuo-Shih Tseng and Angela Chih-Wei Tang
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2009 2009:416395
  2. We address the problem of realizing lightweight signal processing and control architectures for agents in multirobot systems. Motivated by the promising results of neuromorphic engineering which suggest the ef...

    Authors: Nebu John Mathai, Takis Zourntos and Deepa Kundur
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2009 2009:984752
  3. The successful mission of an autonomous airborne system like an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) strongly depends on its accurate navigation. While GPS is not always available and pose estimation based solely on ...

    Authors: Stefan Lang and Michael Kirchhof
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2009 2009:467549
  4. Monitoring a large area with stationary sensor networks requires a very large number of nodes which with current technology implies a prohibitive cost. The motivation of this work is to develop an architecture...

    Authors: Theofanis P. Lambrou and Christos G. Panayiotou
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2009 2009:750657
  5. In the motion control of a microrobot swarm, a key issue is how to autonomously generate a set of common coordinates among all robots and how to notify each robot of its heading direction in the generated comm...

    Authors: Shinsuke Hara, Tatsuya Ishimoto, Masaya Kitano and Tetsuo Tsujioka
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2009 2009:434597
  6. Due to its simplicity and efficiency, the pure-pursuit path tracking method has been widely employed for planned navigation of nonholonomic ground vehicles. In this paper, we investigate the application of thi...

    Authors: Jesús Morales, Jorge L Martínez, María A Martínez and Anthony Mandow
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2009 2009:935237
  7. This paper discusses the application of the theory of partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) to the design of guidance algorithms for controlling the motion of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) ...

    Authors: Scott A. Miller, Zachary A. Harris and Edwin K.P. Chong
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2009 2009:724597
  8. To act intelligently in dynamic environments, mobile robots must estimate object positions using information obtained from a variety of sources. We formally describe the problem of estimating the state of obje...

    Authors: Paul E. Rybski and Manuela M. Veloso
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2009 2009:284525