Great strides have been made in recent years in developing the necessary technologies to make autonomous cars a reality. However, a number of challenges remain, a major one being that of accurate vehicle localization. This ...

Autonomous navigation for a mobile robot is required to operate in cluttered, unstruc- tured environment at high speeds with efficient data gathering. Given the payload con- straints and long-range sensing requirements, ...

Coupling of control and perception is an especially difficult problem. This thesis investigates this problem in the context of aggressive off-road driving. By jointly developing a robust 1:5 scale platform and leveraging ...

Pose estimation is a topic of important research in the fields of robotic and computer vision, particularly for applications in autonomous transportation and robotic manipulators. This thesis presents the implementation ...

The objective of this research effort is to further rehabilitation techniques for children by developing and validating the core technologies needed to integrate therapy instruction with child-robot play interaction in ...

With the advancements in medicine and welfare systems, the average life span of modern human beings is expanding, creating a new market for elderly care and assistive technology. Along with the development of assistive ...