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ICRA
2007
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
OOPS for Motion Planning: An Online, Open-source, Programming System
— The success of sampling-based motion planners has resulted in a plethora of methods for improving planning components, such as sampling and connection strategies, local planner...
Erion Plaku, Kostas E. Bekris, Lydia E. Kavraki
TASE
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Coverage of a Planar Point Set With Multiple Robots Subject to Geometric Constraints
This paper focuses on the assignment of discrete points among K robots and determining the order in which the points should be processed by the robots, in the presence of geometric...
Nilanjan Chakraborty, Srinivas Akella, John T. Wen
ICRA
2010
IEEE
142views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Toward automated tissue retraction in robot-assisted surgery
—Robotic surgical assistants are enhancing physician performance, enabling physicians to perform more delicate and precise minimally invasive surgery. However, these devices are ...
Sachin Patil, Ron Alterovitz
IROS
2009
IEEE
128views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Motion planning for active cannulas
— An active cannula is a medical device composed of thin, pre-curved, telescoping tubes that may enable many new surgical procedures. Planning optimal motions for these devices i...
Lisa A. Lyons, Robert J. Webster, Ron Alterovitz
ICRA
2010
IEEE
118views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Voronoi coverage of non-convex environments with a group of networked robots
— This paper presents a solution to decentralized Voronoi coverage in non-convex polygonal environments. We show that complications arise when existing approaches to Voronoi cove...
Andreas Breitenmoser, Mac Schwager, Jean-Claude Me...