5 accepted papers
Painting textures on 3D surfaces requires an understanding of the surface geometry, paint flow and paint mixing. This work formulates automated painting as a planning problem and proposes a solution based on a self-supervised learning framework that enables a robot to paint monochromatic non-uniform…
PaintCopter is an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capable of spray painting on complex three-dimensional (3D) surfaces. This letter aims to make PaintCopter more user-friendly and to enable more intuitive human–robot interaction. We propose a virtual reality interface that allows the user t
This letter describes a system for autonomous spray painting using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), suitable for industrial applications. The work is motivated by the potential for such a system to achieve accurate and fast painting results. The PaintCopter is a quadrotor that has been custom fitte
This paper describes a system to map a ground-plane, and to subsequently use the map for localization of a mobile robot. The robot has a downward-facing camera, and works on a variety of ground textures including general texture like tarmac, man-made designs like carpet, and rectilinear textures lik…
In this paper, we propose a GPU parallelized SLAM system capable of using photometric and inertial data together with depth data from an active RGB-D sensor to build accurate dense 3D maps of indoor environments. We describe several extensions to existing dense SLAM techniques that allow us to opera…