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ICRA
1998
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
The Bow Leg Hopping Robot
The bow leg hopper is a novel locomotor design with a highly resilient leg that resembles an archer's bow. During flight, a "thrust" actuator adds elastic energy to...
Ben Brown, Garth Zeglin
RSS
2007
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13 years 9 months ago
Adaptive Non-Stationary Kernel Regression for Terrain Modeling
— Three-dimensional digital terrain models are of fundamental importance in many areas such as the geo-sciences and outdoor robotics. Accurate modeling requires the ability to de...
Tobias Lang, Christian Plagemann, Wolfram Burgard
ICRA
2005
IEEE
139views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Attitude Estimation for Dynamic Legged Locomotion Using Range and Inertial Sensors
— Legged robots offer exceptional mobility in uncharted terrains. Their dynamic nature yields unrivaled mobility, but serves to destabilize the motion estimation process that und...
Surya P. N. Singh, Kenneth J. Waldron
ICRA
1999
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Rapid Physics-Based Rough-Terrain Rover Planning with Sensor and Control Uncertainty
In future planetary exploration missions, rovers will be required to autonomously traverse challenging environments. Much of the previous work in robot motion planning cannot be s...
Karl Iagnemma, Frank Génot, Steven Dubowsky
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Motion Planning for a Class of Planar Closed-chain Manipulators
— We study the motion planning problem for planar star-shaped manipulators. These manipulators are formed by joining k “legs” to a common point (like the thorax of an insect)...
Guanfeng Liu, Jeffrey C. Trinkle, N. Shvalb