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LBGP: Learning Based Goal Planning for Autonomous Following in Front
Payam Nikdel, Richard Vaughan, Mo Chen
This paper investigates a hybrid solution which combines deep reinforcement learning (RL) and classical trajectory planning for the following in front application. Here, an autonom…
Recognizing and Tracking High-Level, Human-Meaningful Navigation Features of Occupancy Grid Maps
Payam Nikdel, Richard Vaughan
This paper describes a system whereby a robot detects and track human-meaningful navigational cues as it navigates in an indoor environment. It is intended as the sensor front-end…
Commodifying Pointing in HRI: Simple and Fast Pointing Gesture Detection from RGB-D Images
Bita Azari, Angelica Lim, Richard T. Vaughan
We present and characterize a simple method for detecting pointing gestures suitable for human-robot interaction applications using a commodity RGB-D camera. We exploit a state-of-…
UAV Visual Teach and Repeat Using Only Semantic Object Features
Amirmasoud Ghasemi Toudeshki, Faraz Shamshirdar, Richard Vaughan
We demonstrate the use of semantic object detections as robust features for Visual Teach and Repeat (VTR). Recent CNN-based object detectors are able to reliably detect objects of…
Active Image-based Modeling with a Toy Drone
Rui Huang, Danping Zou, Richard Vaughan +1
Image-based modeling techniques can now generate photo-realistic 3D models from images. But it is up to users to provide high quality images with good coverage and view overlap, wh…