@inproceedings{1d6840a772194c4bb06f99f232e98c6e,
title = "Development of dog-like retrieving capability in a ground robot",
abstract = "This paper presents the Mobile Intelligence Team's approach to addressing the CANINE outdoor ground robot competition. The competition required developing a robot that provided retrieving capabilities similar to a dog, while operating fully autonomously in unstructured environments. The vision team consisted of Mobile Intelligence, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Wayne State University. Important computer vision aspects of the project were the ability to quickly learn the distinguishing characteristics of novel objects, searching images for the object as the robot drove a search pattern, identifying people near the robot for safe operations, correctly identify the object among distractors, and localizing the object for retrieval. The classifier used to identify the objects will be discussed, including an analysis of its performance, and an overview of the entire system architecture presented. A discussion of the robot's performance in the competition will demonstrate the system's successes in real-world testing.",
keywords = "autonomy, CANINE, computer vision, object recognition, unmanned ground vehicle",
author = "MacKenzie, \{Douglas C.\} and Rahul Ashok and Rehg, \{James M.\} and Gary Witus",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1117/12.2010679",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9780819494351",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
booktitle = "Proceedings of SPIE-IS and T Electronic Imaging - Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXX",
note = "Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXX: Algorithms and Techniques ; Conference date: 04-02-2013 Through 06-02-2013",
}