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ICRA
2006
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Study on Hemispherical Soft-fingered Handling for fine Manipulation by Minimum D.O.F. Robotic Hand
— This paper provides that an elastic force and an elastic potential energy due to the deformation of soft fingers, which are previously derived, can be calculated into straight...
Takahiro Inoue, Shinichi Hirai
ICRA
2000
IEEE
124views Robotics» more  ICRA 2000»
13 years 12 months ago
Local Search Heuristics for the Assembly Line Balancing Problem with Incompatibilities Between Tasks
This paper deals with the Assembly Line Balancing Problem considering incompatibilities between the tasks with the aim of, first, minimizing the number of workstations and, then, ...
Joaquín Bautista, Raúl Suárez...
CRV
2006
IEEE
144views Robotics» more  CRV 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
Building Local Safety Maps for a Wheelchair Robot using Vision and Lasers
To be useful as a mobility assistant for a human driver, an intelligent robotic wheelchair must be able to distinguish between safe and hazardous regions in its immediate environm...
Aniket Murarka, Joseph Modayil, Benjamin Kuipers
ICRA
2003
IEEE
167views Robotics» more  ICRA 2003»
14 years 22 days ago
Local exploration: online algorithms and a probabilistic framework
— Mapping an environment with an imaging sensor becomes very challenging if the environment to be mapped is unknown and has to be explored. Exploration involves the planning of v...
Volkan Isler, Sampath Kannan, Kostas Daniilidis
AAAI
1990
13 years 8 months ago
LOGnets: A Hybrid Graph Spatial Representation for Robot Navigation
In this article we present a novel, hybrid graph spatial representation for robot navigation. This representation enables our mobile robot to build a model of its surroundings whi...
Peter K. Malkin, Sanjaya Addanki