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IROS
2006
IEEE
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Robot Navigation based on the Mapping of Coarse Qualitative Route Descriptions to Route Graphs
— This paper describes the use of natural language route descriptions in the mobile robot navigation domain. Guided by corpus analysis and earlier work on coarse qualitative rout...
Christian Mandel, Udo Frese, Thomas Röfer
IROS
2006
IEEE
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On the Discrete-Continuous Control of Basic Skills for Humanoid Robots
– Within the next years a new generation of humanoid robots is going to be developed being able to manage autonomously sophisticated tasks in a complex, time variant domestic env...
Giulio Milighetti, Helge-Björn Kuntze
IROS
2006
IEEE
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SLAM using Visual Scan-Matching with Distinguishable 3D Points
— Scan-matching based on data from a laser scanner is frequently used for mapping and localization. This paper presents an scan-matching approach based instead on visual informat...
Federico Bertolli, Patric Jensfelt, Henrik I. Chri...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Auditory Evidence Grids
– Sound source localization on a mobile robot can be a difficult task due to a variety of problems inherent to a real environment, including robot ego-noise, echoes, and the tran...
Eric Martinson, Alan C. Schultz
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Combinatorial Optimization of Sensing for Rule-Based Planar Distributed Assembly
Abstract— We describe a model for planar distributed assembly, in which agents move randomly and independently on a twodimensional grid, joining square blocks together to form a ...
Jonathan Kelly, Hong Zhang
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Haptic Rendering of Biological Elastic Properties based on Biomechanical Characterization
— This paper deals with the design of a micro-force sensing device for biomechanical characterization of biological samples. This device combines (SPM) techniques and advanced ro...
Mehdi Boukallel, Maxime Girot, Stephane Rég...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Heterogeneous and Hierarchical Cooperative Learning via Combining Decision Trees
Abstract— Decision trees, being human readable and hierarchically structured, provide a suitable mean to derive state-space abstraction and simplify the inclusion of the availabl...
Masoud Asadpour, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Roland Sie...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Topological characterization of mobile robot behavior
— We propose to classify the behaviors of a mobile robot thanks to topological methods as an alternative to metric ones. To do so, we adapt an analysis scheme from Physics of non...
Aurélien Hazan, Frédéric Dave...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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SwisTrack: A Tracking Tool for Multi-Unit Robotic and Biological Systems
— Tracking of miniature robotic platforms involves major challenges in image recognition and data association. We present our 3-year effort into developing the platform-independe...
Nikolaus Correll, Grégory Sempo, Yuri L&oac...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Developing a non-intrusive biometric environment
— The development of large scale biometric systems requires experiments to be performed on large amounts of data. Existing capture systems are designed for fixed experiments and...
Lee Middleton, David K. Wagg, Alex I. Bazin, John ...