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ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Mixed reality simulation for mobile robots
Mobile robots are increasingly entering the real and complex world of humans in ways that necessitate a high degree of interaction and cooperation between human and robot. Complex ...
Ian Yen-Hung Chen, Bruce A. MacDonald, Burkhard W&...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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PDAC-based underactuated 3D bipedal walking - Stabilization of PDAC constants and walking direction control -
This paper proposes a three-dimensional biped dynamic walking algorithm based on Passive Dynamic Autonomous Control (PDAC) which is previously proposed. The robot dynamics is model...
Tadayoshi Aoyama, Kosuke Sekiyama, Yasuhisa Hasega...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Piezoelectric ultrasonic resonant micromotor with a volume of less than 1 mm3 for use in medical microbots
To improve on current methods of minimally invasive surgery, research is being carried out on systems that will permit procedures to be conducted on the micro-scale using remotely ...
Brett Watson, James Friend, Leslie Yeo, Metin Sitt...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Dynamic path planning with multi-agent data fusion - The Parallel Hierarchical Replanner
The design of a hierarchical planning system in which each level operates in parallel and communicates asynchronously is presented. It is shown that this Parallel Hierarchical Repl...
Thomas Allen, Andrew Hill, James Patrick Underwood...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Efficient C-space and cost function updates in 3D for unmanned aerial vehicles
When operating in partially-known environments, autonomous vehicles must constantly update their maps and plans based on new sensor information. Much focus has been placed on devel...
Sebastian Scherer, Dave Ferguson, Sanjiv Singh
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Fast needle insertion to minimize tissue deformation and damage
Abstract-- During needle-based procedures, transitions between tissue layers often involve puncture events that produce substantial deformation and tend to drive the needle off cou...
Mohsen Mahvash, Pierre E. Dupont
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Affordance based word-to-meaning association
Abstract-- This paper presents a method to associate meanings to words in manipulation tasks. We base our model on an affordance network, i.e., a mapping between robot actions, rob...
Verica Krunic, Giampiero Salvi, Alexandre Bernardi...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Object handling tasks based on active tactile and slippage sensations in a multi-fingered humanoid robot arm
This paper presents a new algorithm for object handling tasks based on active tactile and slippage sensations using a humanoid robot multi-fingered arm for an object that exists at...
Hanafiah B. Yussof, Jiro Wada, Masahiro Ohka
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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An adaptive-scale robust estimator for motion estimation
Although RANSAC is the most widely used robust estimator in computer vision, it has certain limitations making it ineffective in some situations, such as the motion estimation prob...
Trung Ngo Thanh, Hajime Nagahara, Ryusuke Sagawa, ...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Optimized passive dynamics improve transparency of haptic devices
For haptic devices, compensation of the robot's gravity is a frequent strategy with the aim to reduce interaction forces between robot and human in zero-impedance control. How...
Heike Vallery, Alexander Duschau-Wicke, Robert Rie...