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ICRA
1999
IEEE
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Proportional Navigation Guidance in Robot Trajectory Planning for Intercepting Moving Objects
This paper presents a novel approach to on-line, robotmotion planning for moving-object interception. A hybrid scheme, which combines a navigation-based technique with a conventio...
Mehran Mehrandezh, M. N. Sela, Robert G. Fenton, B...
ICRA
1999
IEEE
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Achieving Fine Absolute Positioning Accuracy in Large Powerful Manipulators
Important robotic tasks could be most effectively done by powerful and accurate manipulators. However, high accuracy is generally unattainable in manipulators capable of producing...
Marco A. Meggiolaro, Peter C. L. Jaffe, Steven Dub...
ICRA
1999
IEEE
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Examples of 3D Grasp Quality Computations
Previous grasp quality research is mainly theoretical, and has assumed that contact types and positions are given, in order to preserve the generality of the proposed quality meas...
Andrew T. Miller, Peter K. Allen
ICRA
1999
IEEE
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Performance of a Partitioned Visual Feedback Controller
We present a novel approach we call partitioning where the robot's degrees- of-freedom (D OF) are categorized into two classes based on joint kinematics and dynamics to desig...
Paul Y. Oh, Peter K. Allen
ICRA
1999
IEEE
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Marker-Augmented Robot-Environment Interaction
There has been an increasing interest in developing computational theories of autonomous robots. However the previous work has focused on intelligent modifications to internal com...
Amol Dattatraya Mali
ICRA
1999
IEEE
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A Mobile Manipulator
This paper describes a mobile manipulator that uses its wheels for manipulation as well as locomotion. This robot, named the mobipulator, looks like a small car with four independ...
Matthew T. Mason, Dinesh K. Pai, Daniela Rus, Lee ...
ICRA
1999
IEEE
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VISP: A Software Environment for Eye-in-Hand Visual Servoing
In this paper, we describe a modular software that allows fast development of eye-in-hand image-based visual servoing applications (ViSP states for "Visual Servoing Platform&...
Éric Marchand
ICRA
1999
IEEE
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Toppling Manipulation
This paper describes a robotic manipulation primitive called toppling--knocking a part over. We derive the mechanical conditions for toppling, express these as constraints on robo...
Kevin M. Lynch
ICRA
1999
IEEE
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Analysis and Design Approach to Inchworm Robotic Insects
Nicolae Lobontiu, Michael Goldfarb, Ephrahim Garci...
ICRA
1999
IEEE
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An Effective Method to Reduce Inventory in Job Shops
Inventory plays a major role in deciding the overall manufacturing costs, and a good scheduling system should balance the on-time delivery of products versus low work-in-process (W...
Peter B. Luh, Xiaohui Zhou, Robert N. Tomastik