4 accepted papers
Ground texture localization using a downward-facing camera offers a low-cost, high-precision localization solution that is robust to dynamic environments and requires no environmental modification. We present a significantly improved bag-of-words (BoW) image retrieval system for ground texture local
Robots are especially useful in cold, remote, and inhospitable environments such as polar regions and extraterrestrial settings. Due to subfreezing temperatures and limited resources in these environments, robots made of ice are particularly advantageous. In this paper we demonstrate how the solid a…
Pruning weight is indicative of a vine’s ability to produce a crop the following year, informing vineyard management. Current methods for estimating pruning weight are costly, laborious, and/or require specialized know-how and equipment. In this paper we demonstrate an affordable, simple, computer v…
We present a lightweight ground texture based localization algorithm (L-GROUT) that improves the state of the art in performance and can be run in real-time on single board computers without GPU acceleration. Such computers are ubiquitous on small indoor robots and thus this work enables high-precis…