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ICRA
2005
IEEE
118views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Planning for Steerable Bevel-tip Needle Insertion Through 2D Soft Tissue with Obstacles
— We explore motion planning for a new class of highly flexible bevel-tip medical needles that can be steered to previously unreachable targets in soft tissue. Planning for thes...
Ron Alterovitz, Kenneth Y. Goldberg, Allison M. Ok...
GECCO
2007
Springer
162views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Genetic evolution of hierarchical behavior structures
The development of coherent and dynamic behaviors for mobile robots is an exceedingly complex endeavor ruled by task objectives, environmental dynamics and the interactions within...
Brian G. Woolley, Gilbert L. Peterson
ICDCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Distributed Processing of Spatial Alarms: A Safe Region-Based Approach
Spatial alarms are considered as one of the basic capabilities in future mobile computing systems for enabling personalization of location-based services. In this paper, we propos...
Bhuvan Bamba, Ling Liu, Arun Iyengar, Philip S. Yu
CEC
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 days ago
Overcoming the bootstrap problem in evolutionary robotics using behavioral diversity
— The bootstrap problem is often recognized as one of the main challenges of evolutionary robotics: if all individuals from the first randomly generated population perform equal...
Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Stéphane Doncieux
IJCAI
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Online Speed Adaptation Using Supervised Learning for High-Speed, Off-Road Autonomous Driving
The mobile robotics community has traditionally addressed motion planning and navigation in terms of steering decisions. However, selecting the best speed is also important – be...
David Stavens, Gabriel Hoffmann, Sebastian Thrun