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IROS
2006
IEEE
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Adaptive Interacting Multiple Models applied on pedestrian tracking in car parks
— To address perception problems we must be able to track dynamics targets of the environment. An important issue of tracking is filtering problem in which estimates of the targ...
Julien Burlet, Olivier Aycard, Anne Spalanzani, Ch...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Good Image Features for Bearing-only SLAM
Abstract— In this paper, we propose an algorithm for extracting and selecting SIFT (scale-invariant feature transform) visual features for bearing-only SLAM in indoor environment...
Xiang Wang, Hong Zhang
IROS
2006
IEEE
111views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
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A Delay-tolerant, Potential field-based, Network Implementation of an Integrated Navigation System
Abstract—Network controllers (NCs) are devices that are capable of converting dynamic, spatially extended, and functionally specialized modules into a taskable goal-oriented grou...
Rachana Ashok Gupta, Ahmad A. Masoud, Mo-Yuen Chow
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Visual Homing Navigation With Two Landmarks: The Balanced Proportional Triangulation Method
— Current approaches to the visual homing for mobile robot navigation are generally inspired in insects’ behavior and based on the observed angular information of fixed points...
Jose Francisco Bonora, Domingo Gallardo
IROS
2006
IEEE
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A Lie Algebraic Approach for Consistent Pose Registration for General Euclidean Motion
Abstract— We study the problem of registering local relative pose estimates to produce a global consistent trajectory of a moving robot. Traditionally, this problem has been stud...
Motilal Agrawal
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Planning and Executing Navigation Among Movable Obstacles
Abstract— This paper explores autonomous locomotion, reaching, grasping and manipulation for the domain of Navigation Among Movable Obstacles (NAMO). The robot perceives and cons...
Mike Stilman, Koichi Nishiwaki, Satoshi Kagami, Ja...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Application of Optimization Techniques for an Optimal Fertilization by Centrifugal Spreading
— Mineral fertilizers application is an agricultural task widely performed by centrifugal spreaders. These machines give satisfying results with regularly spaced parallel tractor...
Teddy Virin, Jonas Koko, Emmanuel Piron, Philippe ...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Q-RAN: A Constructive Reinforcement Learning Approach for Robot Behavior Learning
Abstract— This paper presents a learning system that uses Qlearning with a resource allocating network (RAN) for behavior learning in mobile robotics. The RAN is used as a functi...
Jun Li, Achim J. Lilienthal, Tomás Mart&iac...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Balance Control of a Humanoid Robot Based on the Reaction Null Space Method
— A humanoid robot should be able to keep its balance even in the presence of disturbing forces. Studies of human body reaction patterns to sudden external forces are useful to d...
Akinori Nishio, Kentaro Takahashi, Dragomir N. Nen...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Workspace Analysis of a 6-DOF Cable Robot for Hardware-in-the-Loop Dynamic Simulation
- This paper describes the study of the force-closure workspace of a 6-DOF, cable-driven, parallel robot for the application in a hardware-in-the-loop dynamic simulator, which is u...
Xiumin Diao, Ou Ma