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Handbook of Research on Advancements in Robotics and Mechatronics
The ability to decide on correct route.
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Bio-Inspired Polarization Vision Techniques for Robotics Applications
Abd El Rahman Shabayek (Suez Canal University, Egypt), Olivier Morel (Université de Bourgogne, France), and David Fofi (Université de Bourgogne, France)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 37
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-7387-8.ch005
Abstract
Researchers have been inspired by nature to build the next generation of smart robots. Based on the mechanisms adopted by the animal kingdom, research teams have developed solutions to common problems that autonomous robots faced while performing basic tasks. Polarization-based behaviour is one of the most distinctive features of some species of the animal kingdom. Light polarization parameters significantly expand visual capabilities of autonomous robots. Polarization vision can be used for most tasks of color vision, like object recognition, contrast enhancement, camouflage breaking, and signal detection and discrimination. In this chapter, the authors briefly cover polarization-based visual behavior in the animal kingdom. Then, they go in depth with bio-inspired applications based on polarization in computer vision and robotics. The aim is to have a comprehensive survey highlighting the key principles of polarization-based techniques and how they are biologically inspired.
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Multimedia Technology: A Companion to Art Visitors
In the field of information searching and browsing navigation is the activity of moving among information units, often structured as web pages. The term navigation has also suggested the term orientation to denote the recognition of a virtual position in the set of information units and the surrounding information reachable by traversing links associated to specific information items.
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Developing 3D Freehand Gesture-Based Interaction Methods for Virtual Walkthroughs: Using an Iterative Approach
A fundamental task in 3D environments allowing users to find their way and move around the environment. It presents several challenges as providing spatial awareness, and efficient ways to move between distant places. It includes travel and wayfinding (motor and cognitive components, respectively).
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Impact of UAVs in Agriculture
It is the practice of locating a ship, aero plane, or other vehicle and directing it to a certain location.
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Augmenting Fire Emergency Response Detection and Rescue Using Multi-Rotor Drones
The skill or process of plotting and directing the course of a vehicle, especially an aircraft or ship. Navigation is essential for UAVs to travel from one point to another, often involving the use of GPS, onboard sensors, and environmental data to reach their destination accurately.
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Orientation, Functions, Navigation, and Experiences: User Interface Designs and Wireframes
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Internet Consumer Behavior: Web Atmospherics
the process of self-directed movement through a computer-mediated environment.
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Navigation by Image-Based Visual Homing
The process of determining and maintaining a course or trajectory to a goal location.
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Assistive Navigation Systems for the Visually Impaired
Process of traversing between two locations, with directional know-hows.
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The Place of High Speed Crafts (HSCs) in Maritime Transportation
The science and the art that deals with methods and rules necessary to take marine craft from one position to another as soon as possible with safety and peacefully.
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Video Ontology
Navigation refers to the hypertext connection of the multimedia content and determines ease of information retrieval and a site’s organization (Karayanni & Baltas, 2003).
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Game Aspects in Collaborative Navigation of Blind Travelers
A way or course taken in getting from a starting point to a destination.
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Evaluation of E-Government Web Sites
Navigation is the process of following a path in a database to find desired information. It is usually applied to the exploration of a hypertext system, or a database that has graphic representation via a Web site.
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Trends in Adaptive Interface Design for Smart Wheelchairs
The set of procedures followed by mobile vehicles or people to select a trajectory from one point to other and to move following it.
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Optimization Algorithms in Local and Global Positioning
filed of study that focuses on the process of monitoring and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicule from one place to another. This field is broad and includes land, marine, aeronautic and space navigation (i.e. satellite systems).
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A Proposal of Evaluation Criteria for the Quality of ESL/EFL Websites for Autonomous Learning
Act of moving through the hierarchical hypertextual structure of a website or web-based system, this is, between the different web pages that compose it, or up and down around the content or parts of an individual web page. This subcharacteristic of web quality is an essential aspect on the evaluation of both functionality and usability.
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Navigation in Online Social Networks
Staring from one source node in a network and traversing different paths in order to reach to a specific destination node.
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Distributed Autonomous Control Architecture for Intelligent Mobile Robot Systems
Planning an optimal route to reach a given goal from the current position, and its execution while performing obstacle avoidance.
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Consumer Perception of Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems: A Netnographic Case Study of Amazon
The ability of RMFS robots to move and steer within facilities using sensors, maps, markers. Enables automation.
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Recent Advances in Online Consumer Behavior
The process of self-directed movement through a computer-mediated environment.
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Ubiquitous Access to Adaptive Hypermedia
Denotes the capability of hypermedia to direct users effectively to desired information elements.
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