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ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Object Manipulation under Hybrid Active/Passive Closure
— In this paper, we discuss the manipulation of an object under hybrid active/passive closure. We show the orthogonality between the directions of active and passive force closur...
Tetsuyoh Watanabe, Kensuke Harada, Zhongwei Jiang,...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Robust Real-Time Visual Tracking: Comparison, Theoretical Analysis and Performance Evaluation
— In this paper, two real-time pose tracking algorithms for rigid objects are compared. Both methods are 3D-model based and are capable of calculating the pose between the camera...
Andrew I. Comport, Danica Kragic, Éric Marc...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Rehabilitation Robot Cell for Multimodal Standing-Up Motion Augmentation
— The paper presents a robot cell for multimodal standing-up motion augmentation. The robot cell is aimed at augmenting the standing-up capabilities of impaired or paraplegic sub...
Roman Kamnik, Tadej Bajd, John Williamson, Roderic...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Circular/Spherical Robots for Crawling and Jumping
Abstract— We describe circular/spherical robots for crawling and jumping. Locomotion over rough terrain has been achieved mainly by rigid body systems including crawlers and leg ...
Yuuta Sugiyama, Ayumi Shiotsu, Masashi Yamanaka, S...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Loop Closing in Topological Maps
— In order to create consistent maps of unknown environments, a robot must be able to recognize when it has returned to a previously visited place. In this paper, we introduce an...
Kristopher R. Beevers, Wesley H. Huang
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Mars Exploration Rover Operations with the Science Activity Planner
– The Science Activity Planner (SAP) is the primary science operations tool for the Mars Exploration Rover mission and NASA’s Software of the Year for 2004. SAP utilizes a vari...
Jeffrey S. Norris, Mark W. Powell, Marsette Vona, ...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Handling the Inconsistency of Relative Map Filter
— In [5], a version of Relative Map Filter (RMF) is proposed to solve the simultaneous localization and map building (SLAM) problem. In the RMF, the map states contain only quant...
Viet Nguyen, Agostino Martinelli, Roland Siegwart
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Dynamic Manipulation of a Sphere on a Disk by Inclination Control of the Disk
- Human beings cannot control a position of sphere on the disk without seeing it. Because under such a condition, as we determine the position and estimate the motion of sphere by ...
Masayuki Hara, Yoshinori Tanaka, Tetsuro Yabuta
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Exactly Sparse Delayed-State Filters
— This paper presents the novel insight that the SLAM information matrix is exactly sparse in a delayedstate framework. Such a framework is used in view-based representations of ...
Ryan Eustice, Hanumant Singh, John J. Leonard