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ICRA
2002
IEEE
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The Electronic Ball Boy: A Reactive Visually Guided Mobile Robot for the Tennis Court
In the modern world mobile robots are being utilized for many tasks that are either hazardous or unpleasant for human beings. The potential of robots to assume such tasks hinges o...
Robert J. Webster III, Alan S. Brannon
ICRA
2002
IEEE
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Simultaneous Localization and Mapping with Detection and Tracking of Moving Objects
Both simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and detection and tracking of moving objects (DTMO) play key roles in robotics and automation. For certain constrained environmen...
Chieh-Chih Wang, Charles E. Thorpe
ICRA
2002
IEEE
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Auxiliary Particle Filter Robot Localization from High-Dimensional Sensor Observations
We apply the auxiliary particle filter algorithm of Pitt and Shephard (1999) to the problem of robot localization. To deal with the high-dimensional sensor observations (images) ...
Nikos A. Vlassis, Bas Terwijn, Ben J. A. Krös...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
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Uniform Monte Carlo Localization - Fast and Robust Self-Localization Method for Mobile Robots
In this paper, we describe a novel self-localizationalgorithm. Self-Localizationmethods are required for to lowercomputational costand handling vague sensordata. Thus, we propose ...
Ryuichi Ueda, Takeshi Fukase, Yuichi Kobayashi, Ta...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
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Characterization of a 2-D Laser Scanner for Mobile Robot Obstacle Negotiation
This paper presents a characterization study of the Sick LMS 200 laser scanner. A number of parameters, such as operation time, data transfer rate, target surface properties, as w...
Cang Ye, Johann Borenstein
ICRA
2002
IEEE
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A Complete, Local and Parallel Reconfiguration Algorithm for Cube Style Modular Robots
We present a complete, local, and parallel reconfiguration algorithm for metamorphic robots made up of Telecubes, six degree of freedom cube shaped modules currently being develop...
Sergei Vassilvitskii, Mark Yim, John W. Suh
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...