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2010
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Design and Analysis of a Portable Indoor Localization Aid for the Visually Impaired
—In this paper, we present the design and analysis of a portable position and orientation (pose) estimation aid for the visually impaired. Our prototype navigation aid consists o...
Joel A. Hesch, Stergios I. Roumeliotis
IJRR
2010
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Equilibrium Conformations of Concentric-tube Continuum Robots
Robots consisting of several concentric, preshaped, elastic tubes can work dexterously in narrow, constrained, and/or winding spaces, as are commonly found in minimally invasive s...
D. Caleb Rucker, Robert J. Webster III, Gregory S....
IJRR
2010
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Learning from Demonstration for Autonomous Navigation in Complex Unstructured Terrain
Rough terrain autonomous navigation continues to pose a challenge to the robotics community. Robust navigation by a mobile robot depends not only on the individual performance of ...
David Silver, J. Andrew Bagnell, Anthony Stentz
IJRR
2010
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Design and Control of a Bio-inspired Human-friendly Robot
The increasing demand for physical interaction between humans and robots has led to the development of robots that guarantee safe behavior when human contact occurs. However, atta...
Dongjun Shin, Irene Sardellitti, Yong-Lae Park, Ou...
IJRR
2010
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Planning under Uncertainty for Robotic Tasks with Mixed Observability
Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) provide a principled, general framework for robot motion planning in uncertain and dynamic environments. They have been app...
Sylvie C. W. Ong, Shao Wei Png, David Hsu, Wee Sun...