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AROBOTS
2010
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15 years 2 months ago
Pivoting based manipulation by a humanoid robot
Abstract In this paper we address whole-body manipulation of bulky objects by a humanoid robot. We adopt a "pivoting" manipulation method that allows the humanoid to disp...
Eiichi Yoshida, Mathieu Poirier, Jean-Paul Laumond...
ICML
2009
IEEE
16 years 4 months ago
Robot trajectory optimization using approximate inference
The general stochastic optimal control (SOC) problem in robotics scenarios is often too complex to be solved exactly and in near real time. A classical approximate solution is to ...
Marc Toussaint
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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15 years 10 months ago
Torsional kinematic model for concentric tube robots
— A recent approach to steerable needle design is based on combining pre-curved tubes concentrically. By rotating and extending the tubes with respect to each other, the position...
Pierre E. Dupont, Jesse Lock, Evan Butler
ECAI
2004
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Active Learning for Robot Manipulation
Abstract— Learning techniques in robotic grasping applications have usually been concerned with the way a hand approaches to an object, or with improving the motor control of man...
Antonio Morales, Eris Chinellato, Andrew H. Fagg, ...
ECAL
2003
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Optimal Morphology of a Biologically-Inspired Whisker Array on an Obstacle-Avoiding Robot
Abstract. Whiskers are versatile sensors for short-range navigation and exploration that are widespread in many animal species, especially in rodents. Their arrangement is in very ...
Miriam Fend, Hiroshi Yokoi, Rolf Pfeifer