During the research within the MAURO (Mobile Autonomous Robot) project (1995 – 1998) the research team from the 'Robot Control Systems' Laboratory has designed and realized an ultrasonic range finding sensor intended to be used in mobile robot navigation. The sensor has been successively improved and the design was adopted also by other research teams within the Automation Department being used...

The lack of reliable poverty data in developing countries poses a major challenge for making informed policy decisions and allocating resources effectively in those areas of the world. Unfortunately, it can be prohibitively expensive to frequently conduct comprehensive surveys that track measures of economic progress. A cheap and scalable method of producing poverty maps would greatly facilitat...

Laser (lidars) used from satellites and space stations for measurement of atmospheric properties may represent an ocular hazard to people on the surface of the earth. The risk of an eye injury depends on a range of parameters such as the energy per pulse, wavelength, beam divergence, space craft orbit, atmospheric conditions, properties of telescopes and other viewing aids, and the viewing beha...

ground-based laser range finder have got more concerned. In our previous research, a method of automated In this paper, a method of fusing ground-based laser registration of two views of laser range image was range image and CCD image for the reconstruction of proposed [4,51, and showed promising results with some textured 3 0 urban object is proposed. An acquisition preliminary experiment. The...

After the successful European gravity mission GOCE (Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer), which provided an unprecedented high resolution static global map of the Earth's gravity field, the European Space Agency has proposed several preparatory studies for a Next Generation Gravity Mission. The NGGM mission objective aims at measuring the temporal variations of the Earth g...