Ara Nefian — accepted AI-conference papers

2017

Structured light-based hazard detection for planetary surface navigation

Ara Nefian, Uland Y. Wong, Michael Dille, Xavier Bouyssounouse, Laurence Edwards, Vinh To +2

IROS 2017poster

This paper describes a structured light-based sensor for hazard avoidance in planetary environments. The system presented here can also be used in terrestrial applications constrained by reduced onboard power and computational complexity and low illumination conditions. The sensor consists on a cali…

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2016

Safeguarding a lunar rover with Wald's sequential probability ratio test

P. Michael Furlong, Michael Dille, Uland Y. Wong, Ara Nefian

ICRA 2016

The virtual bumper is a safeguarding mechanism for autonomous and remotely operated robots to conservatively avoid collisions even in the face of sensor uncertainty. In this paper we take a new approach to the virtual bumper system by applying a powerful but rarely examined statistical test. By usin

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