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IROS
2006
IEEE
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Towards Whole Arm Manipulation by Contact State Transition
— This paper discusses the whole arm manipulation allowing the contact state transition. For manipulation of an object under fully constrained, the contact state transition becom...
Tetsuyou Watanabe, Kensuke Harada, Tsuneo Yoshikaw...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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A Dynamic JKR Model with Application to Vibrational Release in Micromanipulation
— In this paper a dynamic contact model is presented based on the Johnson-Kendall-Roberts (JKR) theory. The classical JKR model captures the contact properties for the quasi-stat...
Yang Fang, Xiaobo Tan
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Optimal local map size for EKF-based SLAM
Abstract— In this paper we show how to optimize the computational cost and maximize consistency in EKF-based SLAM for large environments. We combine Local Mapping with Map Joinin...
Lina María Paz, José Neira
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Sounds Good: Simulation and Evaluation of Audio Communication for Multi-Robot Exploration
— In order to guide the design of a new multi-robot system, we seek to evaluate two different designs of audio direction sensor. We have implemented a simple but useful audio pro...
Pooya Karimian, Richard Vaughan, Sarah Brown
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Towards Open-Ended 3D Rotation and Shift Invariant Object Detection for Robot Companions
- Robot companions need to be able to constantly acquire knowledge about new objects for instance in order to detect them in the environment. This ability is necessary since it is ...
Jens Kubacki, Winfried Baum
IROS
2006
IEEE
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System Design of Robots for Application to In-Space Assembly
- This paper presents the design of an experimental system for assembly applications in space. The prototypical application is the assembly of mechanical trusses. The system used a...
Harshit Suri, Peter M. Will, Wei-Min Shen
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Advanced Teleoperation Architecture
Stefano Galvan, Andrea Castellani, Debora Botturi,...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Probabilistic Search for a Moving Target in an Indoor Environment
– We consider a search for a target moving within a known indoor environment partitioned into interconnected regions of varying sizes. The knowledge of target location is describ...
Haye Lau, Shoudong Huang, Gamini Dissanayake
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Acquisition of Multi-Modal Expression of Slip through Pick-Up Experiences
— To realize adaptive and robust manipulation, a robot should have several sensing modalities and coordinate their outputs to achieve the given task based on underlying constrain...
Yasunori Tada, Koh Hosoda