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HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
How to approach humans?: strategies for social robots to initiate interaction
This paper proposes a model of approach behavior with which a robot can initiate conversation with people who are walking. We developed the model by learning from the failures in ...
Satoru Satake, Takayuki Kanda, Dylan F. Glas, Mich...
PERVASIVE
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Landmark-Based Pedestrian Navigation with Enhanced Spatial Reasoning
Computer vision techniques can enhance landmark-based navigation by better utilizing online photo collections. We use spatial reasoning to compute camera poses, which are then regi...
Harlan Hile, Radek Grzeszczuk, Alan L. Liu, Ramakr...
IAT
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Autonomous UAV Surveillance in Complex Urban Environments
We address the problem of multi-UAV surveillance in complex urban environments with occlusions. The problem consists of coordinating the flight of UAVs with on-board cameras so t...
Eduard Semsch, Michal Jakob, Dusan Pavlícek...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Guiding medical needles using single-point tissue manipulation
— This paper addresses the use of robotic tissue manipulation in medical needle insertion procedures to improve targeting accuracy and to help avoid damaging sensitive tissues. T...
Meysam Torabi, Kris K. Hauser, Ron Alterovitz, Vin...
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
CASE: Connectivity-Based Skeleton Extraction in Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract—Many sensor network applications are tightly coupled with the geometric environment where the sensor nodes are deployed. The topological skeleton extraction has shown gr...
Hongbo Jiang, Wenping Liu, Dan Wang, Chen Tian, Xi...