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ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Optical Coordination Sensor for Precision Cooperating Robots
The need for high precision robotic systems has increased in recent years. Examples include automated assembly of complex electro-mechanical products such as disk drives, cameras,...
Wing-Choi Ma, Alfred A. Rizzi, Ralph L. Hollis
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Designing Motion Guides for Ergonomic Collaborative Manipulation
Manual materials handling of heavy loads is a common cause of low back disorders. The manual manipulation of a heavy load may be made more comfortable by constraining the load to ...
Kevin M. Lynch, Caizhen Liu
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Registration of Range Data Using a Hybrid Simulated Annealing and Iterative Closest Point Algorithm
The need to register data is abundant in applications such as: world modeling, part inspection and manufacturing, object recognition, pose estimation, robotic navigation, and reve...
Jason P. Luck, Charles Q. Little, William Hoff
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Visual Tracking with Subpixel Resolution using an Analog VLSI Computational Sensor
This paper describes the application of a computational vision sensor to active binocular tracking. The sensor outputs are used to control the vergence angles of the two cameras a...
Ziyi Lu, Bertram Emil Shi
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Toward Biomorphic Control Using Custom aVLSI CPG Chips
The locomotor controller for walking, running, swimming, and flying animals is based on a Central Pattern Generator (CPG). Models of CPGs as systems of coupled non-linear oscillato...
M. Anthony Lewis, Ralph Etienne-Cummings, Avis H. ...
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Sensor Resetting Localization for Poorly Modelled Mobile Robots
We present a new localization algorithm called Sensor Resetting Localization which is an extension of Monte Carlo Localization. The algorithm adds sensor based resampling to Monte...
Scott Lenser, Manuela M. Veloso
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Evaluating Control Modes for Constrained Robotic Surgery
Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) constrains instrument motions to 4 DOF by precluding lateral motion at the incision. Robotic MIS systems can interpose arbitrary mappings between ...
Fuji Lai, Robert D. Howe
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Design of a Teleoperation Controller for an Underwater Manipulator
A robust teleoperation controller design methodfor an underwater manipulator is proposed considering the master and the underwater slave separately. To achieve transparency and st...
Dong-Soo Kwon, Jee-Hwan Ryu, Pan-Mook Lee, Seok-Wo...
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Interpretation of Sewer Circular Structures
A practical algorithm for 3-D interpretation of images taken in a sewer by a robot-inspector is presented. Modern sewers made of concrete present regular circular structures origi...
Marina Kolesnik, Gregory Baratoff
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Kinodynamic Motion Planning Amidst Moving Obstacles
This paper presents a randomized motion planner for kinodynamic asteroidavoidanceproblems, in which a robot must avoid collision with moving obstacles under kinematic, dynamic con...
Robert Kindel, David Hsu, Jean-Claude Latombe, Ste...