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AR
2010
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13 years 9 months ago
Development of a Visual Odometry System for a Wheeled Robot on Loose Soil using a Telecentric Camera
In this paper, the development of a three-dimensional (3-D) odometry system for wheeled robots on loose soil in an application of planetary exploration is described. When a wheele...
Keiji Nagatani, Ayako Ikeda, Genya Ishigami, Kazuy...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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13 years 7 months ago
Autonomous door opening and plugging in with a personal robot
Abstract— We describe an autonomous robotic system capable of navigating through an office environment, opening doors along the way, and plugging itself into electrical outlets ...
Wim Meeussen, Melonee Wise, Stuart Glaser, Sachin ...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Motion Tasks and Force Control for Robot Manipulators on Embedded 2-D Manifolds
— In this paper we present a methodology to drive the end effector of a robotic manipulator across the surface of an object in the workspace, and at the same time the manipulator...
Xanthi Papageorgiou, Savvas G. Loizou, Kostas J. K...
KI
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Shape-Based Robot Mapping
We present a novel geometric model for robot mapping suited for robots equipped with a laser range finder. The geometric representation is based on shape. Cyclic ordered sets of p...
Diedrich Wolter, Longin Jan Latecki, Rolf Lakä...
HRI
2007
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Robots as interfaces to haptic and locomotor spaces
Research on spatial cognition and navigation of the visually impaired suggests that vision may be a primary sensory modality that enables humans to align the egocentric (self to o...
Vladimir A. Kulyukin, Chaitanya Gharpure, Cassidy ...