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ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Five-fingered Robot Hand using Ultrasonic Motors and Elastic Elements
- A five-fingered robot hand having almost an equal number of DOF to the human hand is developed. The robot hand is driven by a unique method using ultrasonic motors and elastic el...
Ikuo Yamano, Takashi Maeno
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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A Biologically Based Flight Control System for a Blimp-based UAV
- Autonomous navigation in 2D and 3D environments has been studied for a long time. Navigating within a 3D environment is very challenging for both animals and robots and a variety...
Sergi Bermúdez i Badia, Pawel Pyk, Paul F. ...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Improving Odour Analysis Through Human-Robot Cooperation
— More and more work in the field of artificial olfaction considers the integration of olfaction onto robotic systems. An important part of this integration is providing the ro...
Amy Loutfi, Silvia Coradeschi
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Learning to Steer on Winding Tracks Using Semi-Parametric Control Policies
— We present a semi-parametric control policy representation and use it to solve a series of nonholonomic control problems with input state spaces of up to 7 dimensions. A neares...
Kenneth Robert Alton, Michiel van de Panne
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Landmark Based Position Estimation for Pinpoint Landing on Mars
- Many of NASA's planned missions for the coming decade will require a pinpoint landing (PPL) capability, whether for sample acquisition and return or for precise insertion in...
Yang Cheng, Adnan Ansar
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Distributed Sampling-Based Roadmap of Trees for Large-Scale Motion Planning
Abstract— High-dimensional problems arising from complex robotic systems test the limits of current motion planners and require the development of efficient distributed motion p...
Erion Plaku, Lydia E. Kavraki
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Epipole-Based Visual Servoing with Central Catadioptric Camera
— This paper presents an epipolar based visual servoing for mobile robots equipped with a panoramic camera. The proposed visual servoing is based on the epipolar geometry and exp...
Gian Luca Mariottini, Eleonora Alunno, Jacopo Piaz...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Minimum Distance Localization for a Robot with Limited Visibility
— Minimum distance localization is the problem of finding the shortest possible path for a robot to eliminate ambiguity regarding its position in the environment. We consider th...
Malvika Rao, Gregory Dudek, Sue Whitesides
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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UPnP Approach for Robot Middleware
- This paper presents an approach to utilize UPnP as a middleware for robots. It describes the advantages of UPnP by comparing UPnP with TAO CORBA that was used in a few robot deve...
Sang Chul Ahn, Jin Hak Kim, Kiwoong Lim, Heedong K...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Dynamical Wall Following for a Wheeled Robot Using a Passive Tactile Sensor
— Feedback from antennae – long, flexible tactile sensors – enables cockroaches and other arthropods to rapidly maneuver through poorly lit and cluttered environments. Inspi...
Andrew G. Lamperski, Owen Y. Loh, Brett L. Kutsche...