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ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Wet Shape Memory Alloy Actuators for Active Vasculated Robotic Flesh
− A new type of actuator is presented where Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) wires are embedded within artificial “blood vessels.” Fluid flowing through vessels allows the SMA wires ...
Stephen A. Mascaro, H. Harry Asada
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Marco polo localization
We introduce the Marco Polo Localization approach, where we apply sound as a tool for gathering range measurements between robots, and use those to solve a range-only Simultaneous...
Eric Beowulf Martinson, Frank Dellaert
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Learning to role-switch in multi-robot systems
We present an approach that uses Q-learning on individual robotic agents, for coordinating a missiontasked team of robots in a complex scenario. To reduce the size of the state sp...
Eric Martinson, Ronald C. Arkin
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Optimal design of parallel manipulators via LMI approach
Yunjiang Lou, Guanfeng Liu, Z. X. Li
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Visual registration and navigation using planar features
— This paper addresses the problem of registering the hexapedal robot, RHex, relative to a known set of beacons, by real-time visual servoing. A suitably constructed navigation f...
Gabriel A. D. Lopes, Daniel E. Koditschek
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Closed loop navigation for multiple non -holonomic vehicles
In this paper we incorporate dipolar potential fields used for nonholonomic navigation into a novel potential function designed for multi – robot navigation. The derived naviga...
Savvas G. Loizou, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Mobile robot navigation using sensor fusion
Abstract— This paper considers the localizaton and navigation of a mobile robot. The control strategy is based on a nonlinear model predictive control technique that utilizes the...
Fernando C. Lizarralde, Eduardo V. L. Nunes, Liu H...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Results for outdoor-SLAM using sparse extended information filters
Abstract — In [13], a new algorithm was proposed for efficiently solving the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem. In this paper, we extend this algorithm to han...
Yufeng Liu, Sebastian Thrun