This thesis explores the challenges involved in building autonomous exploration and monitoring systems, and makes contributions on four fronts: describing the semantic context of the collected data, summarizing this information, deciding where to collect this data, and making optimal online irrevocable decisions for physical sample collection. Making high level decisions based on the environmental context of a robot's location requires that we first describe what is being observed in a semantic space with higher level of abstraction than the low level sensor reading. ROST, a realtime online spatiotemporal topic modeling technique that we develop in this thesis solves the problem of obtaining such high level descriptors. Topics in this case ...
By exploiting our visual abilities, Scienti c Visualization aims at o ering engineers and researcher...
Biped and quadruped robots are beginning now to master the skill of walking dynamically in most stan...
Mobile robotics research is currently interested on exporting autonomous navigation results achieved...
We conducted research mainly in the areas of navigation, perception and learning for mobile robots. ...
Robotics has reached a high accuracy on many tasks, like for instance manipulation or navigation. Bu...
The meeting of ambient intelligence and robotics support gave resulting in the so-called ambient rob...
The problem of learning behaviors on an autonomous robot raises many issues related to motor control...
Developmental robotics has begun in the last fifteen years to study robots that havea childhood—craw...
Recent technological developments have created a new context of ubiquitous computing and interconnec...
There are numerous applications of outdoor autonomous mobile robots : surveillance of areas to detec...
The goal of this thesis is to build a bio-inspired architecture allowing a robot to autonomouslynavi...
Mobile robots have already entered people's homes to perform simple tasks for them. For robots at ho...
This thesis presents the realization of a localization system for a mobile robot relying on monocula...
Robot perception plays a crucial role in human-robot interaction (HRI). Perception system provides t...
Distributed systems are systems composed of multiple communicant processes cooperating to solve a co...
By exploiting our visual abilities, Scienti c Visualization aims at o ering engineers and researcher...
Biped and quadruped robots are beginning now to master the skill of walking dynamically in most stan...
Mobile robotics research is currently interested on exporting autonomous navigation results achieved...
We conducted research mainly in the areas of navigation, perception and learning for mobile robots. ...
Robotics has reached a high accuracy on many tasks, like for instance manipulation or navigation. Bu...
The meeting of ambient intelligence and robotics support gave resulting in the so-called ambient rob...
The problem of learning behaviors on an autonomous robot raises many issues related to motor control...
Developmental robotics has begun in the last fifteen years to study robots that havea childhood—craw...
Recent technological developments have created a new context of ubiquitous computing and interconnec...
There are numerous applications of outdoor autonomous mobile robots : surveillance of areas to detec...
The goal of this thesis is to build a bio-inspired architecture allowing a robot to autonomouslynavi...
Mobile robots have already entered people's homes to perform simple tasks for them. For robots at ho...
This thesis presents the realization of a localization system for a mobile robot relying on monocula...
Robot perception plays a crucial role in human-robot interaction (HRI). Perception system provides t...
Distributed systems are systems composed of multiple communicant processes cooperating to solve a co...
By exploiting our visual abilities, Scienti c Visualization aims at o ering engineers and researcher...
Biped and quadruped robots are beginning now to master the skill of walking dynamically in most stan...
Mobile robotics research is currently interested on exporting autonomous navigation results achieved...