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ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Heterogeneous implementation of an adaptive robotic sensing team
: When designing a mobile robotic team, an engineer is faced with many design choices. This paper discusses the design of a team consisting of two different models of robots with ...
Bradley Kratochvil, Ian T. Burt, Andrew Drenner, D...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Remote actuation mechanism for mr-compatible manipulator using leverage and parallelogram - workspace analysis, workspace contro
— In this paper, a novel mechanism of remote actuation was proposed and its mechanical problems were discussed. This mechanism consists of leverage and parallelogram mechanism an...
Yoshihiko Koseki, Noriho Koyachi, Tatsuo Arai, Kiy...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Constructing rheologically deformable virtual objects
A physical modeling of rheological objects is presented. Objects showing rheological nature involve foods and biological tissues yet no systematic approach to build their virtual ...
Masafumi Kimura, Yuuta Sugiyama, Seiji Tomokuni, S...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Airborne simultaneous localisation and map building
— This paper presents results of the application of simultaneous localisation and map building (SLAM) for an uninhibited aerial vehicle (UAV). Single vision camera and inertial m...
Jong-Hyuk Kim, Salah Sukkarieh
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Extracting optimal paths from roadmaps for motion planning
We present methods for extracting optimal paths from motion planning roadmaps. Our system enables any combination of optimization criteria, such as collision detection, kinematic/...
Jinsuck Kim, Roger A. Pearce, Nancy M. Amato
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Robust model-based 3D object recognition by combining feature matching with tracking
− We propose a vision based 3D object recognition and tracking system, which provides high level scene descriptions such as object identification and 3D pose information. The sys...
Sungho Kim, In-So Kweon, Incheol Kim
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Motion planning for a crowd of robots
- Moving a crowd of robots or avatars from their current configurations to some destination area without causing collisions is a challenging motion-planning problem because the hig...
Tsai-Yen Li, Hsu-Chi Chou
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Recognizing surface properties using impedance perception
— When the end-effector of a robot is slid on a flat surface, the stiffness matrix obtained by linear fitting of position and force contains information not only on the stiffne...
Ryo Kikuuwe, Tsuneo Yoshikawa
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Highly compliant and self-tightening docking modules for precise and fast connection of self-reconfigurable robots
― This paper describes a new docking system called Compliant-And-Self-Tightening (CAST) developed as an effective and efficient connector for joining and releasing modules of sel...
Behrokh Khoshnevis, Peter M. Will, Wei-Min Shen