State of the art
State of the Art of group 5
Jasper
[1][2] Article about a trash collecting robot (team). It is about office cleanup, but with some changes the technique can also be relevant for outside use. It is about a competition. One document describes the solution of the winning team, the other gives some more information about the competition.
[3] A patent for sucking and filtering for a dust collection vehicle.
[4] A patent for an autonomous lawn mower robot. Also about navigating over the lawn.
[5] Paper about weed control, describing navigating through specific areas, detecting weed with a camera, making weed maps and spraying weed.
[6] A patent for a snow sweeper for sidewalks.
Tom
[7] Paper about the design of an autonomous vacuum cleaner.
[8] Paper about pathing algorithms for autonomous vacuum cleaner robots.
[9] Analysis of snow melting approaches.
[10] Paper about machine vision application for weed removal.
[11] Analysis of pavement maintenance methods.
[12] Research into small (< 20kg) urban robots for disaster relief.
Stan
[13] Paper about navigation on pavements, avoiding litter, pedestrians and bicycles.
[14] Paper about asphalt analysis, to detect whether the road needs maintenance. This paper was actually meant for airborne sensing, but could be used by our robot as well.
[15] Paper about stair-climbing methods for robots, useful for our robot to easily get on or off the pavement.
[16] Article about weather forecasting in the road [network. Could be used by our robot to predict which task it has to do (e.g. de-icing the road)
[17] Paper about autonomous docking at a recharging station for autonomous vehicles in general
[18] Article about an autonomous cleaning robot for outdoor use, including path-finding and memory of cleaned areas
Ruben
[19] Patent for communication of an autonomous sidewalk robot
[20] Patent for an autonomous neighborhood vehicle controllable through a neighborhood social network
[21] Patent for a system and method for navigating an autonomous vehicle using laser detection and ranging
[22] Paper about autonomous vehicles navigating trough sidewalks buildings and hallways
[23]] Paper about an Autonomous Robot for Garbage Detection and Collection
[24] Paper about multiple robots in smart city applications