Search Results - "Journal of field robotics"

A survey of deep learning techniques for autonomous driving by Grigorescu, Sorin, Trasnea, Bogdan, Cocias, Tiberiu, Macesanu, Gigel

“…The last decade witnessed increasingly rapid progress in self‐driving vehicle technology, mainly backed up by advances in the area of deep learning and…”
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RTAB‐Map as an open‐source lidar and visual simultaneous localization and mapping library for large‐scale and long‐term online operation by Labbé, Mathieu, Michaud, François

“…Distributed as an open‐source library since 2013, real‐time appearance‐based mapping (RTAB‐Map) started as an appearance‐based loop closure detection approach…”
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Development of a sweet pepper harvesting robot by Arad, Boaz, Balendonck, Jos, Barth, Ruud, Ben‐Shahar, Ohad, Edan, Yael, Hellström, Thomas, Hemming, Jochen, Kurtser, Polina, Ringdahl, Ola, Tielen, Toon, Tuijl, Bart

“…This paper presents the development, testing and validation of SWEEPER, a robot for harvesting sweet pepper fruit in greenhouses. The robotic system includes a…”
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The current state and future outlook of rescue robotics by Delmerico, Jeffrey, Mintchev, Stefano, Giusti, Alessandro, Gromov, Boris, Melo, Kamilo, Horvat, Tomislav, Cadena, Cesar, Hutter, Marco, Ijspeert, Auke, Floreano, Dario, Gambardella, Luca M., Siegwart, Roland, Scaramuzza, Davide

“…Robotic technologies, whether they are remotely operated vehicles, autonomous agents, assistive devices, or novel control interfaces, offer many promising…”
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An autonomous strawberry‐harvesting robot: Design, development, integration, and field evaluation by Xiong, Ya, Ge, Yuanyue, Grimstad, Lars, From, Pål J.

“…This paper presents an autonomous robot capable of picking strawberries continuously in polytunnels. Robotic harvesting in cluttered and unstructured…”
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Image Segmentation for Fruit Detection and Yield Estimation in Apple Orchards by Bargoti, Suchet, Underwood, James P.

“…Ground vehicles equipped with monocular vision systems are a valuable source of high‐resolution image data for precision agriculture applications in orchards…”
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Graph‐based subterranean exploration path planning using aerial and legged robots by Dang, Tung, Tranzatto, Marco, Khattak, Shehryar, Mascarich, Frank, Alexis, Kostas, Hutter, Marco

“…Autonomous exploration of subterranean environments remains a major challenge for robotic systems. In response, this paper contributes a novel graph‐based…”
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Design, integration, and field evaluation of a robotic apple harvester by Silwal, Abhisesh, Davidson, Joseph R., Karkee, Manoj, Mo, Changki, Zhang, Qin, Lewis, Karen

“…Every apple destined for the fresh market is picked by the human hand. Despite extensive research over the past four decades, there are no mechanical apple…”
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Laser–visual–inertial odometry and mapping with high robustness and low drift by Zhang, Ji, Singh, Sanjiv

“…We present a data processing pipeline to online estimate ego‐motion and build a map of the traversed environment, leveraging data from a 3D laser scanner, a…”
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Unmanned Aircraft Capture and Control Via GPS Spoofing by Kerns, Andrew J., Shepard, Daniel P., Bhatti, Jahshan A., Humphreys, Todd E.

“…The theory and practice of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capture and control via Global Positioning System (GPS) signal spoofing are analyzed and demonstrated…”
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WALK‐MAN: A High‐Performance Humanoid Platform for Realistic Environments by Tsagarakis, N. G., Caldwell, D. G., Negrello, F., Choi, W., Baccelliere, L., Loc, V.G., Noorden, J., Muratore, L., Margan, A., Cardellino, A., Natale, L., Mingo Hoffman, E., Dallali, H., Kashiri, N., Malzahn, J., Lee, J., Kryczka, P., Kanoulas, D., Garabini, M., Catalano, M., Ferrati, M., Varricchio, V., Pallottino, L., Pavan, C., Bicchi, A., Settimi, A., Rocchi, A., Ajoudani, A.

“…In this work, we present WALK‐MAN, a humanoid platform that has been developed to operate in realistic unstructured environment, and demonstrate new skills…”
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Harvesting Robots for High-value Crops: State-of-the-art Review and Challenges Ahead by Bac, C. Wouter, van Henten, Eldert J., Hemming, Jochen, Edan, Yael

“…This review article analyzes state‐of‐the‐art and future perspectives for harvesting robots in high‐value crops. The objectives were to characterize the crop…”
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A field‐tested robotic harvesting system for iceberg lettuce by Birrell, Simon, Hughes, Josie, Cai, Julia Y., Iida, Fumiya

“…Agriculture provides an unique opportunity for the development of robotic systems; robots must be developed which can operate in harsh conditions and in highly…”
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Multiple-Robot Simultaneous Localization and Mapping: A Review by Saeedi, Sajad, Trentini, Michael, Seto, Mae, Li, Howard

“…Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in unknown GPS‐denied environments is a major challenge for researchers in the field of mobile robotics. Many…”
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Autonomous aerial navigation using monocular visual‐inertial fusion by Lin, Yi, Gao, Fei, Qin, Tong, Gao, Wenliang, Liu, Tianbo, Wu, William, Yang, Zhenfei, Shen, Shaojie

“…Autonomous micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) have cost and mobility benefits, making them ideal robotic platforms for applications including aerial photography,…”
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Advances in real‐world applications for legged robots by Bellicoso, C. Dario, Bjelonic, Marko, Wellhausen, Lorenz, Holtmann, Kai, Günther, Fabian, Tranzatto, Marco, Fankhauser, Péter, Hutter, Marco

“…This paper provides insight into the application of the quadrupedal robot ANYmal in outdoor missions of industrial inspection (autonomous robot for gas and oil…”
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A comparative study of fruit detection and counting methods for yield mapping in apple orchards by Häni, Nicolai, Roy, Pravakar, Isler, Volkan

“…We present a modular end‐to‐end system for yield estimation in apple orchards. Our goal is to identify fruit detection and counting methods with the best…”
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CCM‐SLAM: Robust and efficient centralized collaborative monocular simultaneous localization and mapping for robotic teams by Schmuck, Patrik, Chli, Margarita

“…Robotic collaboration promises increased robustness and efficiency of missions with great potential in applications, such as search‐and‐rescue and…”
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Fast, autonomous flight in GPS‐denied and cluttered environments by Mohta, Kartik, Watterson, Michael, Mulgaonkar, Yash, Liu, Sikang, Qu, Chao, Makineni, Anurag, Saulnier, Kelsey, Sun, Ke, Zhu, Alex, Delmerico, Jeffrey, Karydis, Konstantinos, Atanasov, Nikolay, Loianno, Giuseppe, Scaramuzza, Davide, Daniilidis, Kostas, Taylor, Camillo Jose, Kumar, Vijay

“…One of the most challenging tasks for a flying robot is to autonomously navigate between target locations quickly and reliably while avoiding obstacles in its…”
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Transfer learning between crop types for semantic segmentation of crops versus weeds in precision agriculture by Bosilj, Petra, Aptoula, Erchan, Duckett, Tom, Cielniak, Grzegorz

“…Agricultural robots rely on semantic segmentation for distinguishing between crops and weeds to perform selective treatments and increase yield and crop health…”
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