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This letter deals with recursive filtering for dynamic systems where an explicit process model is not easily devisable. Most Bayesian filters assume the availability of such an explicit process model, and thus may require additional assumptions or fail to properly leverage all available information. In contrast, we propose a filter that employs a purely residual-based modeling of the available information...
Deployment of camera and laser based motion estimation systems for controlling platforms operating at high speeds, such as cars or trains, is posing increasingly challenging precision requirements on the temporal calibration of these sensors. In this work, we demonstrate a simple, low-cost system for calibrating any combination of cameras and time of flight LIDARs with respect to the CPU clock (and...
Using multiple cooperative robots is advantageous for time critical Search and Rescue (SaR) missions as they permit rapid exploration of the environment and provide higher redundancy than using a single robot. A considerable number of applications such as autonomous driving and disaster response could benefit from merging mapping data from several agents. Online multi-robot localization and mapping...
This paper reports on a data-driven motion planning approach for interaction-aware, socially-compliant robot navigation among human agents. Autonomous mobile robots navigating in workspaces shared with human agents require motion planning techniques providing seamless integration and smooth navigation in such. Smooth integration in mixed scenarios calls for two abilities of the robot: predicting actions...
Sliding window estimation is widely used for online simultaneous localization and mapping. While increasing the sliding window size generally yields improved accuracy, it also comes at an increase in computational cost. In order to reduce this cost, we propose smarter non-uniform sampling of the trajectory representation over the sliding window. This non-uniform temporal resolution is possible with...
Robotic learning on real hardware requires an efficient algorithm which minimizes the number of trials needed to learn an optimal policy. Prolonged use of hardware causes wear and tear on the system and demands more attention from an operator. To this end, we present a novel black-box optimization algorithm, Reward Optimization with Compact Kernels and fast natural gradient regression (ROCK∗). Our...
In this paper we present a method for fusing optical flow and inertial measurements. To this end, we derive a novel visual error term which is better suited than the standard continuous epipolar constraint for extracting the information contained in the optical flow measurements. By means of an unscented Kalman filter (UKF), this information is then tightly coupled with inertial measurements in order...
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