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[1] Tong, C., Dong, H., and Barfoot, T. D. “Pose Interpolation for Laser-Based Visual Odometry.”, Submitted to the Journal of Field Robotics, Manuscript # ROB-13-0044.
[2] Tong, C., Furgale, P., and Barfoot, T. D. “Gaussian Process Gauss-Newton for Non-Parametric Simultaneous Localization and Mapping.” International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 32(5):507–525, April 2013. doi:10.1177/0278364913478672. (pdf).
[3] Tong, C., Gingras, D., Larose, K., Barfoot, T. D., and Dupuis, E. “The Canadian Planetary Emulation Terrain 3D Mapping Dataset.” International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 32(4):389–395, April 2013. doi:10.1177/0278364913478897. (pdf). (website).
[4] Tong, C. and Barfoot, T. D. “Evaluation of Heterogenous Measurement Outlier Rejection Schemes for Robotic Planetary Worksite Mapping.” Acta Astronautica, 88:146–162, July-August 2013. doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2012.08.011. (pdf).
[5] Tong, C., Barfoot, T. D., and Dupuis, E. “Three-dimensional SLAM for Mapping Planetary Work Site Environments.” Journal of Field Robotics, Special issue on “Space Robotics”, 29(3):381–412, May/June 2012. doi:10.1002/ROB.21403. (pdf). (video).
[6] Berczi, L.-P., Gammell, J. D., Tong, C., Daly, M., and Barfoot, T. D. “A Proof-of-Concept, Rover-Based System for Autonomously Locating Methane Gas Sources on Mars.” In Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV), pages 29–36. Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, 28-31 May 2013. doi:10.1109/CRV.2013.16. (pdf).
[7] Gammell, J. D., Tong, C., and Barfoot, T. D. “Blinded by the Light: Exploiting the Deficiencies of a Laser Rangefinder for Rover Attitude Estimation.” In Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV), pages 144–150. Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, 28-31 May 2013. doi:10.1109/CRV.2013.37. (pdf).
[8] Tong, C. and Barfoot, T. D. “Gaussian Process Gauss-Newton for 3D Laser-Based Visual Odometry.” In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pages 5184–5191. Karlsruhe, Germany, 6-10 May 2013. (pdf).
[9] Gammell, J. D., Tong, C., Berczi, P., Anderson, S., and Barfoot, T. D. “Rover Odometry Aided by a Star Tracker.” In Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace Conference. Big Sky, MT, USA, 2-9 March 2013. (pdf).
[10] Tong, C., Furgale, P., and Barfoot, T. D. “Gaussian Process Gauss-Newton: Non-Parametric State Estimation.” In Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV), pages 206–213. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 27-30 May 2012. doi:10.1109/CRV.2012.35. (pdf).
[11] Tong, C. and Barfoot, T. D. “A Self-Calibrating Ground-Truth Localization System Using Retroreflective Landmarks.” In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pages 3601–3606. Shanghai, China, 9-13 May 2011. doi:10.1109/ICRA.2011.5979613. (pdf).
[12] Tong, C. and Barfoot, T. D. “Batch Heterogeneous Outlier Rejection for Feature-Poor SLAM.” In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pages 2630–2637. Shanghai, China, 9-13 May 2011. doi:10.1109/ICRA.2011.5979612. (pdf).
[13] Tong, C., Barfoot, T. D., and Dupuis, E. “3D SLAM for Planetary Worksite Mapping.” In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Invited Symposium on “Field Robotics II”, pages 631–638. San Francisco, CA, USA, 25-30 September 2011. doi:10.1109/IROS.2011.6048242. (pdf). (video).
[14] Tong, C. and Barfoot, T. D. “A Comparison of the EKF, SPKF, and the Bayes Filter for Landmark-Based Localization.” In Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV), pages 199–206. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 31 May - 2 June 2010. doi:10.1109/CRV.2010.33. (pdf). (video).
[15] Barfoot, T. D., McManus, C., Anderson, S., Dong, H., Beerepoot, E., Tong, C., Furgale, P., Gammell, J. D., and Enright, J. “Into Darkness: Visual Navigation based on a Lidar-Intensity-Image Pipeline.” In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR), to appear. Singapore, 16-19 December 2013.
[16] Barfoot, T. D., Stenning, B. E., Gammell, J. D., Tong, C., McManus, C., Berczi, L.-P., Osinski, G. R., Daly, M., and Dickinson, C. “Place Revisiting for Planetary Rovers: An Enabling Technology and Field Testing of Three Mission Concepts.” In Proceedings of the Planetary Rovers Workshop, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Karlsruhe, Germany, 10 May 2013. (pdf).
[17] Merali, R. S., Tong, C., Gammell, J., Bakambu, J., Dupuis, E., and Barfoot, T. D. “3D Surface Mapping Using a Semi-Autonomous Rover: A Planetary Analog Field Experiment.” In Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS). Turin, Italy, 4-6 September 2012. (pdf).
[18] Tong, C. “Laser-Based 3D Mapping and Navigation in Planetary Worksite Environments.” Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto, 2013. (pdf).
[19] Tong, C. “Consistency Comparisons of EKF-SLAM with Investigations into Robust EKF-SLAM.” B.A.Sc. Thesis, 2008. (pdf).
[20] Tong, C., Merali, R., Barfoot, T. D., and D’Eleuterio, G. M. T. “TRACTEUR: Worksite Localization and Mapping Study.” Technical report, UTIAS – Prepared for MDA Space Missions (under subcontract to the Canadian Space Agency, Exploration Study), May 2008.
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