Topological maps have been used in the mobile robot community, starting with Ben Kuipers insightful work on distinctive places and edges that connected them. This map was a variation of the Voronoi diagram, which I use in my work to robot exploration. In this talk, I will put forward a definition of a topological map and show why the Voronoi dia...
Creator:
Choset, Howie (Carnegie Mellon University)
Created:
2014-03-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Breast pump. Clear, free-blown glass chamber and tube connected to a stiff tan rubber pump; glass tube has a flared opening on one end. Includes manufacturer markings:"Union India Rubber Co. Goodyear's Patent New York 1844 & 1848." The device is operated by fitting the flared glass opening on one end over a lactating woman's breast and using vac...
Contributor:
Goodyear, Charles, 1800-1860; Union India Rubber Company, New York, United States (Manufacturer)
Created:
1844 - 1890?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
