The combination of a mobile platform and a manipulator, known as a mobile manipulator, provides a highly flexible system, which can be used in a wide range of applications, especially within the field of service robotics. ...

We present a mobile manipulation system used by the Georgia Tech team in the RoboCup@Home 2010 competition. An overview of the system is provided, including the approach taken for manipulation, SLAM, object detection, ...

We present a scheme for mobile manipulation by introducing a mobile manipulation control architecture (MMCA). This architecture is motivated by a need for a systematic control structure for robotic manipulation within a ...

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) aims to estimate the maximum likelihood map and robot pose based on a robot’s control and sensor measurements. In structured environments, such as human environments, we might ...

Robots are gradually being deployed for everyday environments, that is environments with no or very limited engineering taking place before deployment of the system. As manipulators and mobile platforms come together ...