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ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Development of a Hot Gas Actuator for Self-Powered Robots
This paper describes the design of a liquid-propellantpowered hot-gas actuator appropriate for human-scale power-autonomous robots. A prototype of the actuation system is describe...
Michael Goldfarb, Eric J. Barth, Michael A. Gogola...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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An experimental study of hybrid switched system approaches to visual servoing
Abstract— In the recent past, many researchers have developed control algorithms for visual servo applications. In this paper, we introduce a new hybrid switched system approach,...
Nicholas R. Gans, Seth Hutchinson
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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The HIT/DLR dexterous hand: work in progress
X. H. Gao, M. H. Jin, Li Jiang, Z. W. Xie, P. He, ...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Multi-robot task allocation: analyzing the complexity and optimality of key architectures
— Important theoretical aspects of multi-robot coordination mechanisms have, to date, been largely ignored. To address part of this negligence, we focus on the problem of multi-r...
Brian P. Gerkey, Maja J. Mataric
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Experimental identification and evaluation of performance of a 2DOF haptic display
This paper presents a methodologyfor the evaluation of the performance of a given Haptic Display. The procedure can be carried out throughthe own proper sensors/actuarors which eq...
Antonio Frisoli, Massimo Bergamasco
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Trajectory generation for constant velocity target motion estimation using monocular vision
- The performance of monocular vision based target tracking is a strong function of camera motion. Without motion, the target estimation problem is unsolvable. By designing the cam...
Eric W. Frew, Stephen M. Rock
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Design and modeling of classes of spatial reactionless manipulators
Abstract – For conventional designs of robots, manipulator motions result in forces and moments on the base. These forces and moments may cause undesirable translation and rotati...
Abbas Fattah, Sunil Kumar Agrawal
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Outdoor exploration and SLAM using a compressed filter
Abstract— In this paper we describe the use of automatic exploration for autonomous mapping of outdoor scenes. We describe a real-time SLAM implementation along with an autonomou...
John Folkesson, Henrik I. Christensen
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Autonomous reactive control for simulated humanoids
— We present a framework for composing motor controllers into autonomous composite reactive behaviors for bipedal robots and autonomous, physically-simulated humanoids. A key con...
Petros Faloutsos, Michiel van de Panne, Demetri Te...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Learning about objects through action -initial steps towards artificial cognition
Paul M. Fitzpatrick, Giorgio Metta, Lorenzo Natale...