This paper is the extension of work presented at the IARP Conference “Bio inspired robotics”
held in Frascati (Italy), 14 May 2014. The subject is the localization problem of an …

Many methods for pedestrian positioning exist. In outdoor environments, global satellite
navigation systems such as GPS can give satisfactory positioning performance in many …

An autonomous mobile system can operate as a service robot in various environments. In
many man-made environments like buildings, there exist a lot of glass panes, such as …

The thesis addresses the problem of mobile robot navigation in unstructured outdoor
scenarios and proposes methodologies based on topological navigation to accomplish its …

Exploring autonomy in robotics is a meaningful task. The intuitive definition of autonomy is
the capability of a robot to make a decision based on its own knowledge, acquired by its …

In this article we present a comparative study of three approaches for laser signature
matching in indoor terrains. The first approach analyses the signature using spatial domain …

In this article an improvement of the thermographic object detection is presented. This
research work complies two phases; IR detection and thermographic image processing. The …

A recurrent problem in mobile robotics is the difficulty to accurately estimate a robot's
localization. The ability to successfully estimate the localization of a mobile robot is highly …