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Monocular SLAM position estimation

I have been reading about mono SLAM and I have a couple questions which are not so clear: When doing pose estimation, I have seen people both reference homography transformation and also reference 5\...
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ORB-SLAM pose estimation

I've been reading about ORB-SLAM and ORB-SLAM2, but I can't quite figure out how pose estimation is done. I see that it uses a bag-of-word method for loop detection, but how are current features ...
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Obstacle width measurement

On non-lidar equipped rovers, how is the width of an obstacle detected such that it can be avoided? If the ultrasonic sensors are used for obstacle detection, these sensors usually don't give data ...
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Calculating covariance of parameter estimation from Hessian

I need a covariance of parameter estimation for reliability estimation. According to the this post, I know the approximation of the Hessian can be calculated as $$ \sigma^2 H^{-1} = C $$ where H is ...
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SLAM: Why use two cameras (stereo) if SLAM can be done using single camera (monocular)?

I am aware that algorithm for monocular SLAM is complex compared to stereo SLAM. But my question is if by any means it is possible to do SLAM using one camera why one should use two cameras to do the ...
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Is it possible to detect road surface or navigation area using LRF data or other laser data in a Park?

I would like to detect road surface in a park. In the park, only small grass are covered with the both side of the road. That means there is road and the both side of the road are covered by small ...
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Robot Navigation Feedback using Image Processing

In my project, I've successfully analyzed the arena and have detected the obstacles using an overhead webcam. I also have computed the shortest path. The path data is transmitted to the robot via ...
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Find Centre Of Circle, when robot can "see" a partial arc

I originally asked this here but I am struggling to take the concepts, particularly "Circumcenter", discussed there and apply it in my context. So here it is in my context... I have a small robot ...
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how to plot a line between two centroids in matlab

I am able to locate centroids of each blocks, but i am unable to join two blocks with a line segment by avoiding the obstacle as shown in the figure. Please need help how do i achieve this using ...
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Non-Vision Based Target Tracking

I am building 4-wheeled, knee-high robot with music and speakers on top that will follow a target person as the target moves around. I would like some help with the setup for tracking the target. The ...
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