Visual Homing
The ability of a robot to travel from point A to B by comparing the images captured at A and B.- Publications:
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- Most of my publications are in this area
- Ph.D thesis [PDF Document, 10MB]
- Collaborators:
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- Ralf Möller
- David Churchill (M.Sc completed in 2009)
- Andrew Burke (B.Eng completed in 2006)
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- Videos of robot homing trials from my Ph.D work
Youtube video from former graduate student David Churchill.
Topological Navigation
Using a graph to represent the layout of a robot's environment.- Publications:
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- S.N. Ferdaus, A. Vardy, G.K.I. Mann, and R.G. Gosine. Comparing global measures of image similarity for use in topological localization of mobile robots. In Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering. IEEE Xplore, 2008 [PDF Document]
- Collaborators:
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- Syeda Nusrat Ferdaus (M.Eng completed in 2009)
- Kenneth Evoy (B.Eng completed in 2009)
A topological map of the Intelligent Systems lab by former graduate student Syeda Nusrat Ferdaus.
Other Interests
- Navigation of autonomous underwater vehicles
- Biologically-inspired computing:
- Wearable computing