— This paper presents a mechanism and a control strategy that enables automated non-contact manipulation of spherical objects in three dimensions using air flow, and demonstrate...
Vision systems for service robotics applications have to cope with varying environmental conditions, partial occlusions, complex backgrounds and a large number of distractors (clut...
—We study the problem of actively searching for an object in a 3D environment under the constraint of a maximum search time, using a visually guided humanoid robot with twentysix...
Alexander Andreopoulos, Stephan Hasler, Heiko Wers...
Abstract. A novel approach to create a general vision system is presented. The proposed method is based on a visual grammar representation which is transformed to a Bayesian networ...
Abstract— Robot imitation is a useful and promising alternative to robot programming. Robot imitation involves two crucial issues. The first is how a robot can imitate a human w...
Ryunosuke Yokoya, Tetsuya Ogata, Jun Tani, Kazunor...