Signal Processing Advances in Robots and Autonomy
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Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2009 2009:948716
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Vision-Based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Navigation Using Geo-Referenced Information
This paper investigates the possibility of augmenting an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) navigation system with a passive video camera in order to cope with long-term GPS outages. The paper proposes a vision-bas...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2009 2009:387308 -
Self-Localization and Stream Field Based Partially Observable Moving Object Tracking
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...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2009 2009:416395 -
Vector Field Driven Design for Lightweight Signal Processing and Control Schemes for Autonomous Robotic Navigation
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...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2009 2009:984752 -
Automatic Evaluation of Landmarks for Image-Based Navigation Update
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 ...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2009 2009:467549 -
Collaborative Area Monitoring Using Wireless Sensor Networks with Stationary and Mobile Nodes
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...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2009 2009:750657 -
A Common Coordinates/Heading Direction Generation Method for a Robot Swarm with Only RSSI-Based Ranging
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...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2009 2009:434597 -
Pure-Pursuit Reactive Path Tracking for Nonholonomic Mobile Robots with a 2D Laser Scanner
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...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2009 2009:935237 -
A POMDP Framework for Coordinated Guidance of Autonomous UAVs for Multitarget Tracking
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) ...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2009 2009:724597 -
Prioritized Multihypothesis Tracking by a Robot with Limited Sensing
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...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2009 2009:284525