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ICRA
2008
IEEE
182views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
14 years 5 months ago
A body joint improves vertical to horizontal transitions of a wall-climbing robot
— Several recently-designed robots are able to scale steep surfaces using animal-inspired strategies for foot attachment and leg kinematics. These designs could be valuable for r...
Kathryn A. Daltorio, Timothy C. Witushynsky, Grego...
HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Changing shape: improving situation awareness for a polymorphic robot
Polymorphic, or shape-shifting, robots can normally tackle more types of tasks than non-polymorphic robots due to their flexible morphology. Their versatility adds to the challeng...
Jill L. Drury, Holly A. Yanco, Whitney Howell, Bri...
ISRR
2005
Springer
99views Robotics» more  ISRR 2005»
14 years 4 months ago
On the Probabilistic Foundations of Probabilistic Roadmap Planning
Why is probabilistic roadmap (PRM) planning probabilistic? How does the probability measure used for sampling a robot’s configuration space affect the performance of a PRM plan...
David Hsu, Jean-Claude Latombe, Hanna Kurniawati
MVA
2007
171views Computer Vision» more  MVA 2007»
14 years 9 days ago
Skin Patch Trajectories as Scene Dynamics Descriptors
There is an increasing interest in the concept of intelligent environments where a closed or delimited public space (shopping mall, station, museum, hospital etc) is endowed with ...
Beibei Zhan, Ndedi D. Monekosso, Paolo Remagnino, ...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
301views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
People tracking with human motion predictions from social forces
Abstract— For many tasks in populated environments, robots need to keep track of present and future motion states of people. Most approaches to people tracking make weak assumpti...
Matthias Luber, Johannes Andreas Stork, Gian Diego...