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AGENTS
2001
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Using rat navigation models to learn orientation from visual input on a mobile robot
Rodents possess extraordinary navigation abilities that are far in excess of what current state-of-the-art robot agents are capable of. This paper describes research that is part ...
Brett Browning
KI
2004
Springer
14 years 3 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...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
117views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
Data-driven optimization for underactuated robotic hands
— Passively adaptive and underactuated robotic hands have shown the potential to achieve reliable grasping in unstructured environments without expensive mechanisms or sensors. I...
Matei T. Ciocarlie, Peter K. Allen
VRST
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Crime scene robot and sensor simulation
Virtual reality has been proposed as a training regime for a large number of tasks from surgery rehearsal (cf. [Robb et al. 1996], to combat simulation (cf. [U. S. Congress, Offi...
Robert Codd-Downey, Michael Jenkin
TEC
2010
143views more  TEC 2010»
13 years 4 months ago
Active Categorical Perception of Object Shapes in a Simulated Anthropomorphic Robotic Arm
Active perception refers to a theoretical approach to the study of perception grounded on the idea that perceiving is a way of acting, rather than a process whereby the brain const...
Elio Tuci, Gianluca Massera, Stefano Nolfi