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ICRA
2009
IEEE
137views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Integration of impedance control and manipulability regulation for a finger-arm robot
— Motion control algorithms were proposed for a 9-DOF finger-arm robot by using the finger manipulability obtained in a previous study. However, in the previous study, only metho...
Jian Huang, Daisuke Yamada, Takayuki Hori, Masayuk...
CDC
2010
IEEE
111views Control Systems» more  CDC 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
Multi-robot monitoring in dynamic environments with guaranteed currency of observations
Abstract-- In this paper we consider the problem of monitoring a known set of stationary features (or locations of interest) in an environment. To observe a feature, a robot must v...
Stephen L. Smith, Daniela Rus
ECTEL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Evaluating Spatial Knowledge through Problem-Solving in Virtual Learning Environments
Modeling the cognitive processes of learners is fundamental to build educational software that are autonomous and that can provide highly tailored assistance during learning [3]. F...
Philippe Fournier-Viger, Roger Nkambou, Andr&eacut...
ISMAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Real-Time Localisation and Mapping with Wearable Active Vision
We present a general method for real-time, visiononly single-camera simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) — an algorithm which is applicable to the localisation of any ca...
Andrew J. Davison, Walterio W. Mayol-Cuevas, David...
HRI
2010
ACM
14 years 28 days ago
From manipulation to communicative gesture
— Assisting humans in their daily lives requires robots to be proficient in manual tasks and effective in communicating states/intentions with human users. This paper advocates ...
Shichao Ou, Roderic A. Grupen