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ICRA
2002
IEEE
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On the General Reconfiguration Problem for Expanding Cube Style Modular Robots
We discuss the theoretical limitations for reconfiguration of metamorphic robots made up of Telecubes, six degree of freedom cube shaped modules currently being developed at Xerox...
Sergei Vassilvitskii, Jeremy Kubica, Eleanor G. Ri...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
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An Efficient Approach to the Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping Problem
—The simultaneous localization and map building (SLAM) problem asks if it is possible for an autonomous vehicle to start in an unknown location in an unknown environment and then...
Stefan B. Williams, Gamini Dissanayake, Hugh F. Du...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Autonomous feature-based exploration
: The performance of single-camera SLAM is improved when wide-angle optics provide a field of view greater than the 40 to 50 degrees lenses normally used in computer vision. The is...
Paul M. Newman, Michael Bosse, John J. Leonard
ICRA
2002
IEEE
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Detecting Surface Features During Locomotion using Optic Flow
We test the hypothesis that: (1) Optic flow can be used to detect significant environmental features during locomotion in a biped, even given significant up and down movement and j...
M. Anthony Lewis
ICRA
2002
IEEE
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A Dynamical Systems Approach to Behavior-Based Formation Control
Dynamical systems theory is used here as a theoretical language and tool to design a distributed control archictecture that generates navigation in formation, integrated with obst...
Sergio Monteiro, Estela Bicho