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Professor Tom Duckett is a research consultant and Visiting Chair of Robotics and Autonomous Systems at the School of Computer Science, University of Lincoln, UK, with over 25 years of experience in robotics research and technical development. His research focuses on robotic perception and long-term autonomy of mobile robots in dynamic environments, with applications in field and service robotics.

He currently specialises in consultancy services such as bid writing, training and mentoring, evaluations, project monitoring, and report writing. He was listed in the world’s top 2 percent of scientists (Web of Science, 2020) and is a scientific advisor to the DFG-funded Cluster of Excellence on robotics and phenotyping for sustainable crop production (PhenoRob).

He was previously a full Professor and founding Director of the Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems at the University of Lincoln (2006-21), where he won research grants of £18.2 million (£9.1m as Principal Investigator). He was the grant holder and Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Agri-Food Robotics (AgriFoRwArdS), PI of several large collaborative EU-funded projects (STRANDS, ILIAD, FLOBOT, BACCHUS), and academic lead of various innovation projects in collaboration with industry.

He was Associate Professor at the Centre for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems at Örebro University, Sweden (1999-2006), where he led the Learning Systems Laboratory. He obtained his PhD degree in the AI Group at the University of Manchester, UK (1996-9), and MSc with distinction in Knowledge Based Systems at Heriot-Watt University, UK (1994-5). He also worked as a software engineer, designing and supporting software systems for the fresh food industry (1992-94).

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University of Lincoln: Lincoln, Lincolnshire, GB

2006-03-01 to 2021-03-01 | Professor of Robotics and Autonomous Systems (School of Computer Science)
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Örebro University: Örebro, SE

1999-11-01 to 2006-02-28 | Associate Professor (Department of Technology)
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Education and qualifications (3)

University of Manchester: Manchester, GB

1996-01-01 to 1999-10-31 | PhD in Computer Science (Department of Computer Science)
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Heriot-Watt University: Edinburgh, GB

1994-09-01 to 1995-08-31 | MSc with distinction in Knowledge Based Systems (Department of Computing and Electrical Engineering)
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University of Warwick: Coventry, GB

1988-09-01 to 1991-08-31 | BSc (Hons) in Computer and Management Sciences (Department of Computer Science)
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Funding (17)

University of Lincoln Core Equipment 2020

2020-11-01 to 2022-10-31 | Grant
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (Swindon, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.9452460
GRANT_NUMBER: EP/V035398/1
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MoBile Robotic PlAtforms for ACtive InspeCtion and Harvesting in AgricUltural AreaS

2020-01-01 to 2023-09-30 | Grant
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.8964259
GRANT_NUMBER: 871704
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NPIF EPSRC CDT 2018 equipment funding University of Lincoln

2020-01-01 to 2020-06-29 | Grant
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (Swindon, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.8855664
GRANT_NUMBER: EP/V518499/1
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Development and field testing of the next generation of vision-guided weeding systems

2019-04-30 to 2021-07-30 | Grant
Innovate UK (Swindon, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.8470657
GRANT_NUMBER: 105134
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EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Agri-Food Robotics: AgriFoRwArdS

2019-03-31 to 2027-09-29 | Grant
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (Swindon, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.8469587
GRANT_NUMBER: EP/S023917/1
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Intra-Logistics with Integrated Automatic Deployment: safe and scalable fleets in shared spaces

2017-01-01 to 2021-06-30 | Grant
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.6503724
GRANT_NUMBER: 732737
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16AGRITECHCAT5: 3D Vision-based Crop-Weed Discrimination for Automated Weeding Operations

2016-08-31 to 2018-01-09 | Grant
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (Swindon, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.5125333
GRANT_NUMBER: BB/P004911/1
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Development and demonstration of an automated selective broccoli harvester

2016-06 to 2017-12 | Contract
Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (Kenilworth, GB)
URL: https://horticulture.ahdb.org.uk/cp-153a-development-and-demonstration-of-an-automated-selective-broccoli-harvester
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Synthesis of remote sensing and novel ground truth sensors to develop high resolution soil moisture forecasts in China and the UK

2016-04-30 to 2019-11-30 | Grant
Science and Technology Facilities Council (Swindon, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.5498334
GRANT_NUMBER: ST/N006836/1
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3D Vision Assisted Robotic Harvesting of Broccoli

2015-05-31 to 2016-08-30 | Grant
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (Swindon, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.4576807
GRANT_NUMBER: BB/N004841/1
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Autonomous Control of Agricultural Sprayers

2013-08-31 to 2014-11-30 | Grant
Innovate UK (Swindon, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.3841289
GRANT_NUMBER: 131289
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Spatio-Temporal Representations and Activities For Cognitive Control in Long-Term Scenarios

2013-04-01 to 2017-05-31 | Grant
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.3793546
GRANT_NUMBER: 600623
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Trainable Vision-based Anomaly Detection and Diagnosis

2013-02-01 to 2016-10-31 | Grant
Innovate UK (Swindon, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.3844839
GRANT_NUMBER: 101252
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Monitoring of Heat Sealed Packaging using Thermal and Multi-Spectral Imaging - a pilot study

2011 to 2011 | Award
Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (London, GB)
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Quantitative Estimation of Blemishes in Potatoes using Machine Vision

2006 to 2010 | Award
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (Swindon, GB)
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Dynamic Agile Production Robots That Learn and Optimise Knowledge and Operations

Grant
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (Brussels, BE)
URL: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101017274
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Lincoln Agri Robotics

Award
Research England (Swindon, GB)
URL: https://lar.lincoln.ac.uk/
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Works (38)

Online learning for 3D LiDAR-based human detection: experimental analysis of point cloud clustering and classification methods

Autonomous Robots
2020-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-019-09883-y
Part of ISSN: 0929-5593
Part of ISSN: 1573-7527
Contributors: Tom Duckett; Zhi Yan; Tom Duckett; Nicola Bellotto
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Transfer learning between crop types for semantic segmentation of crops versus weeds in precision agriculture

Journal of Field Robotics
2020-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/rob.21869
Part of ISSN: 1556-4959
Part of ISSN: 1556-4967
Contributors: Tom Duckett; Petra Bosilj; Erchan Aptoula; Tom Duckett; Grzegorz Cielniak
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The challenges posed by global broadacre crops in delivering smart agri-robotic solutions: A fundamental rethink is required

Global Food Security
2019-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2019.04.011
Part of ISSN: 2211-9124
Contributors: Tom Duckett; Bruce Donaldson Grieve; Tom Duckett; Martin Collison; Lesley Boyd; Jon West; Hujun Yin; Farshad Arvin; Simon Pearson
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A Novel Weakly-Supervised Approach for RGB-D-Based Nuclear Waste Object Detection

IEEE Sensors Journal
2019-05-01 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1109/jsen.2018.2888815
Part of ISSN: 1530-437X
Part of ISSN: 1558-1748
Part of ISSN: 2379-9153
Contributors: Li Sun; Cheng Zhao; Zhi Yan; Pengcheng Liu; Tom Duckett; Rustam Stolkin
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Agricultural Robotics: The Future of Robotic Agriculture

2018 | Report
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.1806.06762
Contributors: Tom Duckett; Tom Duckett; Simon Pearson; Simon Blackmore; Bruce Grieve; Wen-Hua Chen; Grzegorz Cielniak; Jason Cleaversmith; Jian Dai; Steve Davis et al.
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Artificial Intelligence for Long-Term Robot Autonomy: A Survey

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
2018-10 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1109/lra.2018.2860628
Part of ISSN: 2377-3766
Part of ISSN: 2377-3774
Contributors: Lars Kunze; Nick Hawes; Tom Duckett; Marc Hanheide; Tomáš Krajník
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Integrating Deep Semantic Segmentation Into 3-D Point Cloud Registration

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
2018-10 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1109/lra.2018.2848308
Part of ISSN: 2377-3766
Part of ISSN: 2377-3774
Contributors: Anestis Zaganidis; Li Sun; Tom Duckett; Grzegorz Cielniak
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Recurrent-OctoMap: Learning State-Based Map Refinement for Long-Term Semantic Mapping With 3-D-Lidar Data

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
2018-10 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1109/lra.2018.2856268
Part of ISSN: 2377-3766
Part of ISSN: 2377-3774
Contributors: Li Sun; Zhi Yan; Anestis Zaganidis; Cheng Zhao; Tom Duckett
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Connected attribute morphology for unified vegetation segmentation and classification in precision agriculture

Computers in Industry
2018-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.compind.2018.02.003
Part of ISSN: 0166-3615
Contributors: Tom Duckett; Petra Bosilj; Tom Duckett; Grzegorz Cielniak
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3DOF Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction Learned from Long-Term Autonomous Mobile Robot Deployment Data

2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
2018-05 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/icra.2018.8461228
Contributors: Tom Duckett; Li Sun; Zhi Yan; Sergi Molina Mellado; Marc Hanheide; Tom Duckett
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3D-vision based detection, localization, and sizing of broccoli heads in the field

Journal of Field Robotics
2017-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/rob.21726
Part of ISSN: 1556-4959
Contributors: Tom Duckett; Keerthy Kusumam; Tomáš Krajník; Simon Pearson; Tom Duckett; Grzegorz Cielniak
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Online learning for human classification in 3D LiDAR-based tracking

2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
2017-09 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/iros.2017.8202247
Contributors: Tom Duckett; Zhi Yan; Tom Duckett; Nicola Bellotto
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The STRANDS Project: Long-Term Autonomy in Everyday Environments

IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine
2017-09 | Magazine article
DOI: 10.1109/mra.2016.2636359
Part of ISSN: 1070-9932
Contributors: Tom Duckett; Nick Hawes; Christopher Burbridge; Ferdian Jovan; Lars Kunze; Bruno Lacerda; Lenka Mudrova; Jay Young; Jeremy Wyatt; Denise Hebesberger et al.
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FreMEn: Frequency Map Enhancement for Long-Term Mobile Robot Autonomy in Changing Environments

IEEE Transactions on Robotics
2017-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1109/tro.2017.2665664
Part of ISSN: 1552-3098
Part of ISSN: 1941-0468
Contributors: Tom Duckett; Tomas Krajnik; Jaime P. Fentanes; Joao M. Santos; Tom Duckett
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Image features for visual teach-and-repeat navigation in changing environments

Robotics and Autonomous Systems
2017-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2016.11.011
Part of ISSN: 0921-8890
Contributors: Tom Duckett; Tomáš Krajník; Pablo Cristóforis; Keerthy Kusumam; Peer Neubert; Tom Duckett
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A Practical Multirobot Localization System

Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems
2014-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10846-014-0041-x
Part of ISSN: 0921-0296
Part of ISSN: 1573-0409
Contributors: Tom Duckett; Tomáš Krajník; Matías Nitsche; Jan Faigl; Petr Vaněk; Martin Saska; Libor Přeučil; Tom Duckett; Marta Mejail
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Long-term experiments with an adaptive spherical view representation for navigation in changing environments

Robotics and Autonomous Systems
2011-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2011.02.013
Part of ISSN: 0921-8890
Contributors: Tom Duckett; Feras Dayoub; Grzegorz Cielniak; Tom Duckett
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Visual detection of blemishes in potatoes using minimalist boosted classifiers

Journal of Food Engineering
2010-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2010.01.010
Part of ISSN: 0260-8774
Contributors: Tom Duckett; Michael Barnes; Tom Duckett; Grzegorz Cielniak; Graeme Stroud; Glyn Harper
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Experimental Analysis of Sample-Based Maps for Long-Term SLAM

The International Journal of Robotics Research
2009-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/0278364908096286
Part of ISSN: 0278-3649
Part of ISSN: 1741-3176
Contributors: Tom Duckett; Peter Biber; Tom Duckett
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A Minimalistic Approach to Appearance-Based Visual SLAM

IEEE Transactions on Robotics
2008-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1109/tro.2008.2004642
Part of ISSN: 1552-3098
Part of ISSN: 1941-0468
Contributors: Tom Duckett; H. Andreasson; T. Duckett; A.J. Lilienthal
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An adaptive appearance-based map for long-term topological localization of mobile robots

2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
2008-09 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/iros.2008.4650701
Contributors: Tom Duckett; F. Dayoub; T. Duckett
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Scan registration for autonomous mining vehicles using 3D-NDT

Journal of Field Robotics
2007-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/rob.20204
Part of ISSN: 1556-4959
Part of ISSN: 1556-4967
Contributors: Tom Duckett; Martin Magnusson; Achim Lilienthal; Tom Duckett
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Self-localization in non-stationary environments using omni-directional vision

Robotics and Autonomous Systems
2007-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2007.02.002
Part of ISSN: 0921-8890
Contributors: Tom Duckett; Henrik Andreasson; André Treptow; Tom Duckett
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Incremental Spectral Clustering and Its Application To Topological Mapping

Proceedings 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
2007-04 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2007.364138
Part of ISSN: 1050-4729
Contributors: Tom Duckett; Christoffer Valgren; Tom Duckett; Achim Lilienthal
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Mini-SLAM: Minimalistic Visual SLAM in Large-Scale Environments Based on a New Interpretation of Image Similarity

Proceedings 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
2007-04 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2007.364108
Part of ISSN: 1050-4729
Contributors: Tom Duckett; Henrik Andreasson; Tom Duckett; Achim Lilienthal
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Airborne Chemical Sensing with Mobile Robots

Sensors
2006-11-20 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/s6111616
Part of ISSN: 1424-8220
Contributors: Tom Duckett; Achim Lilienthal; Amy Loutfi; Tom Duckett
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Localization of mobile robots with omnidirectional vision using Particle Filter and iterative SIFT

Robotics and Autonomous Systems
2006-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2006.04.018
Part of ISSN: 0921-8890
Contributors: Tom Duckett; Hashem Tamimi; Henrik Andreasson; André Treptow; Tom Duckett; Andreas Zell
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Real-time people tracking for mobile robots using thermal vision

Robotics and Autonomous Systems
2006-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2006.04.013
Part of ISSN: 0921-8890
Contributors: Tom Duckett; André Treptow; Grzegorz Cielniak; Tom Duckett
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Dynamic Maps for Long-Term Operation of Mobile Service Robots

Robotics: Science and Systems I
2005-06-08 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.15607/rss.2005.i.003
Contributors: Tom Duckett; Peter Biber; Tom Duckett
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A multilevel relaxation algorithm for simultaneous localization and mapping

IEEE Transactions on Robotics
2005-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1109/tro.2004.839220
Part of ISSN: 1552-3098
Contributors: Tom Duckett; U. Frese; P. Larsson; T. Duckett
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Building gas concentration gridmaps with a mobile robot

Robotics and Autonomous Systems
2004-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2004.05.002
Part of ISSN: 0921-8890
Contributors: Tom Duckett; Achim Lilienthal; Tom Duckett
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Topological localization for mobile robots using omni-directional vision and local features

IFAC Proceedings Volumes
2004-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/s1474-6670(17)31947-x
Part of ISSN: 1474-6670
Contributors: Tom Duckett; Henrik Andreasson; Tom Duckett
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Experimental analysis of gas-sensitive Braitenberg vehicles

Advanced Robotics
2004-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1163/1568553041738103
Part of ISSN: 0169-1864
Part of ISSN: 1568-5535
Contributors: Tom Duckett; Achim Lilienthal; Tom Duckett
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Fast, On-Line Learning of Globally Consistent Maps

Autonomous Robots
2002 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1023/a:1015269615729
Part of ISSN: 0929-5593
Contributors: Tom Duckett; Tom Duckett; Stephen Marsland; Jonathan Shapiro
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3D modeling of indoor environments by a mobile robot with a laser scanner and panoramic camera

2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37566)
Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/iros.2004.1389947
Contributors: Tom Duckett; P. Biber; H. Andreasson; T. Duckett; A. Schilling
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A genetic algorithm for simultaneous localization and mapping

2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (Cat. No.03CH37422)
Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2003.1241633
Contributors: Tom Duckett; T. Duckett
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Learning globally consistent maps by relaxation

Proceedings 2000 ICRA. Millennium Conference. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Symposia Proceedings (Cat. No.00CH37065)
Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2000.845330
Contributors: Tom Duckett; T. Duckett; S. Marsland; J. Shapiro
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Localization for Mobile Robots using Panoramic Vision, Local Features and Particle Filter

Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2005.1570627
Contributors: Tom Duckett; H. Andreasson; A. Treptow; T. Duckett
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