A survey on LiDAR scanning mechanisms

T Raj, F Hanim Hashim, A Baseri Huddin, MF Ibrahim… - Electronics, 2020 - mdpi.com
In recent years, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology has gained huge popularity
in various applications such as navigation, robotics, remote sensing, and advanced driving …

A survey on perception methods for human–robot interaction in social robots

H Yan, MH Ang, AN Poo - International Journal of Social Robotics, 2014 - Springer
For human–robot interaction (HRI), perception is one of the most important capabilities. This
paper reviews several widely used perception methods of HRI in social robots. Specifically …

The three-dimensional normal-distributions transform: an efficient representation for registration, surface analysis, and loop detection

M Magnusson - 2009 - diva-portal.org
This dissertation is concerned with three-dimensional (3D) sensing and 3D scan
representation. Three-dimensional records are important tools in several, quite diverse …

Velodyne slam

F Moosmann, C Stiller - 2011 ieee intelligent vehicles …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Estimating a vehicles' own trajectory and generating precise maps of the environment are
both important tasks for intelligent vehicles. Especially for the second task laser scanners …

Continuous 3D scan-matching with a spinning 2D laser

M Bosse, R Zlot - 2009 IEEE International Conference on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Scan-matching is a technique that can be used for building accurate maps and estimating
vehicle motion by comparing a sequence of point cloud measurements of the environment …

River mapping from a flying robot: state estimation, river detection, and obstacle mapping

S Scherer, J Rehder, S Achar, H Cover, A Chambers… - Autonomous …, 2012 - Springer
Accurately mapping the course and vegetation along a river is challenging, since
overhanging trees block GPS at ground level and occlude the shore line when viewed from …

Synthetic 2D LIDAR for precise vehicle localization in 3D urban environment

ZJ Chong, B Qin, T Bandyopadhyay… - … on Robotics and …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a precise localization algorithm for vehicles in 3D urban environment
with only one 2D LIDAR and odometry information. A novel idea of synthetic 2D LIDAR is …

Sensing and Artificial Perception for Robots in Precision Forestry: A Survey

JF Ferreira, D Portugal, ME Andrada, P Machado… - Robotics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Artificial perception for robots operating in outdoor natural environments, including forest
scenarios, has been the object of a substantial amount of research for decades. Regardless …

System and method of scanning an environment and generating two dimensional images of the environment

J Santos, A Frank, A Ramadneh, S Raab… - US Patent …, 2020 - Google Patents
A system and method of generating a two-dimensional (2D) image of an environment is
provided. The system includes a housing having a body and a handle. A 2D scanner is …

Joint self-localization and tracking of generic objects in 3D range data

F Moosmann, C Stiller - 2013 IEEE International Conference on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Both, the estimation of the trajectory of a sensor and the detection and tracking of moving
objects are essential tasks for autonomous robots. This work proposes a new algorithm that …