Experience-based navigation for long-term localisation

W Churchill, P Newman - The International Journal of …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper is about long-term navigation in environments whose appearance changes over
time, suddenly or gradually. We describe, implement and validate an approach which allows …

[PDF][PDF] Illumination invariant imaging: Applications in robust vision-based localisation, mapping and classification for autonomous vehicles

W Maddern, A Stewart, C McManus, B Upcroft… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - eng.ox.ac.uk
In this paper we propose the use of an illumination invariant transform to improve many
aspects of visual localisation, mapping and scene classification for autonomous road …

Scene signatures: Localised and point-less features for localisation

C McManus, B Upcroft, P Newman - Robotics: Science and …, 2014 - eprints.qut.edu.au
This paper is about localising across extreme lighting and weather conditions. We depart
from the traditional point-feature-based approach as matching under dramatic appearance …

Shady dealings: Robust, long-term visual localisation using illumination invariance

C McManus, W Churchill, W Maddern… - … on robotics and …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper is about extending the reach and endurance of outdoor localisation using stereo
vision. At the heart of the localisation is the fundamental task of discovering feature …

Bridging the appearance gap: Multi-experience localization for long-term visual teach and repeat

M Paton, K MacTavish, M Warren… - 2016 IEEE/RSJ …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vision-based, route-following algorithms enable autonomous robots to repeat manually
taught paths over long distances using inexpensive vision sensors. However, these methods …

Visual place recognition using lidar intensity information

L Di Giammarino, I Aloise, C Stachniss… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robots and autonomous systems need to know where they are within a map to navigate
effectively. Thus, simultaneous localization and mapping or SLAM is a common building …

Fast and robust bio-inspired teach and repeat navigation

D Dall'Osto, T Fischer, M Milford - 2021 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fully autonomous mobile robots have a multitude of potential applications, but guaranteeing
robust navigation performance remains an open research problem. For many tasks such as …

Learning to see through haze: Radar-based human detection for adverse weather conditions

F Majer, Z Yan, G Broughton… - … conference on mobile …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a lifelong-learning multisensor system for pedestrian detection in
adverse weather conditions. The proposed method combines two people detection …

Learning to see through the haze: Multi-sensor learning-fusion system for vulnerable traffic participant detection in fog

G Broughton, F Majer, T Rouček, Y Ruichek… - Robotics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
We present an experimental investigation of a multi-sensor fusion-learning system for
detecting pedestrians in foggy weather conditions. The method combines two pipelines for …

[HTML][HTML] Visual teach and generalise (VTAG)—Exploiting perceptual aliasing for scalable autonomous robotic navigation in horticultural environments

J Cox, N Tsagkopoulos, Z Rozsypálek, T Krajník… - … and Electronics in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nowadays, most agricultural robots rely on precise and expensive localisation, typically
based on global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) and real-time kinematic (RTK) …