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IROS
2009
IEEE
197views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Biped navigation in rough environments using on-board sensing
— We present an approach to navigating a biped robot safely and efficiently through a complicated environment of previously unknown obstacles and terrain using only onboard sens...
Joel E. Chestnutt, Yutaka Takaoka, Keisuke Suga, K...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
192views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
A Robust Visual Odometry and Precipice Detection System Using Consumer-grade Monocular Vision
– We describe a monocular robot vision system which accomplishes accurate 3-DOF dead-reckoning, closedloop motion control, and precipice and obstacle detection, all in dynamic en...
Jason Campbell, Rahul Sukthankar, Illah R. Nourbak...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
121views Robotics» more  ICRA 2003»
14 years 2 months ago
Double spherical joint and backlash clutch for lower limbs of humanoids
In this paper, we develop tw o mechanisms for improving humanoid robot motions. The double spherical joint is a six DOF mechanism whose axes intersect in one point. This mechanism...
Masafumi Okada, Tetsuya Shinohara, Tatsuya Gotoh, ...
HRI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
The hesitation of a robot: a delay in its motion increases learning efficiency and impresses humans as teachable
If robots learn new actions through human-robot interaction, it is important that the robots can utilize rewards as well as instructions to reduce humans' efforts. Additionall...
Kazuaki Tanaka, Motoyuki Ozeki, Natsuki Oka
ICRA
2006
IEEE
89views Robotics» more  ICRA 2006»
14 years 3 months ago
Smooth Interpolation of Orientation by Rolling and Wrapping for Robot Motion Planning
Abstract— This paper investigates a novel procedure to calculate smooth interpolation curves of the rotation group SO3, which is commonly considered as the standard representatio...
Yueshi Shen, Knut Hüper, F. Silva Leite