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ICRA
2008
IEEE
117views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
Kinematics and calibration of active cannulas
Abstract— Active cannulas are remotely actuated thin continuum robots with the potential to traverse narrow and winding environments without relying on “guiding” environmenta...
Robert J. Webster III, Joseph M. Romano, Noah J. C...
CIVR
2007
Springer
180views Image Analysis» more  CIVR 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Probabilistic matching and resemblance evaluation of shapes in trademark images
We present a novel matching and similarity evaluation method for planar geometric shapes represented by sets of polygonal curves. Given two shapes, the matching algorithm randomly...
Helmut Alt, Ludmila Scharf, Sven Scholz
ICRA
2006
IEEE
119views Robotics» more  ICRA 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Outdoor SLAM using Visual Appearance and Laser Ranging
— This paper describes a 3D SLAM system using information from an actuated laser scanner and camera installed on a mobile robot.The laser samples the local geometry of the enviro...
Paul M. Newman, David M. Cole, Kin Leong Ho
COMPGEOM
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Provably good sampling and meshing of Lipschitz surfaces
In the last decade, a great deal of work has been devoted to the elaboration of a sampling theory for smooth surfaces. The goal was to ensure a good reconstruction of a given surf...
Jean-Daniel Boissonnat, Steve Oudot
SMA
2006
ACM
122views Solid Modeling» more  SMA 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Segmenting reliefs on triangle meshes
Sculptural reliefs are widely used in various industries for purposes such as applying brands to packaging and decorating porcelain. In order to easily apply reliefs to CAD models...
Shenglan Liu, Ralph R. Martin, Frank C. Langbein, ...