Real-world objects exhibit rich physical interaction behaviours on contact. Such behaviours depend on how heavy and hard it is when held, how its surface feels when touched, how i...
Hiromi T. Tanaka, Kiyotaka Kushihama, Naoki Ueda, ...
— This paper describes two robotic systems developed for acquiring accurate volumetric maps of underground mines. One system is based on a cart instrumented by laser range finde...
— One of the fundamental problems of the mobile robots is self-localization, i.e. to estimate the self-position by comparing sensor data and a map. In non-stationary environments...
Kanji Tanaka, Tsutomu Hasegawa, Hongbin Zha, Eiji ...
— This paper presents a general approach to specify and execute complex robot tasks considering uncertain environments. Robot tasks are defined by a precise definition of socal...
Much of the current research in human-robot interaction is concerned with single systems and single or few users. These systems and their interfaces are generally tightly-coupled ...
— Various methods to recognize assembly tasks using possible local displacement of objects have been proposed. To calculate this displacement, the screw theory is employed. It is...
Jun Takamatsu, Koichi Ogawara, Hiroshi Kimura, Kat...
Abstract— In this paper, we present how moment invariants can be used to design a decoupled 2D visual servoing scheme and to minimize the nonlinearity of the interaction matrix r...
In this paper the control of exible joint manipulators is studied in detail. A composite control algorithm is proposed for the exible joint robots, which consists of two main part...
— Multiple, independent robot platforms promise significant advantage with respect to robustness and flexibility. However, coordination between otherwise independent robots req...
John Sweeney, Huan Li, Roderic A. Grupen, Krithi R...
— Robotics researchers have studied robots that can follow the trails laid by other robots. We, on the other hand, study robots that leave trails in the terrain to cover closed t...