IROS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
— In this paper, we introduce a new method to automatically detect useful landmarks for visual SLAM. A biologically motivated attention system detects regions of interest which ...
IROS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
— This paper proposes power assist controllers that realize control input minimization using resonance of passive elements. To satisfy the objective, two types of systems are con...
IROS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
— We have developed a new class of continuously flexible snake-like robots, called active cannulas, that consist of several telescoping pre-curved superelastic tubes. The device...
IROS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
— Reaching is a critical task for humanoid robots, requiring the application of state-of-the-art algorithms for motion planning and inverse kinematics. Practical algorithms for s...
IROS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
— This article introduces a new technique for planning reactionless paths to a point in Cartesian space, for manipulators mounted on a free-floating satellite. It is based on de...
IROS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
— This paper presents a robot audition system that recognizes simultaneous speech in the real world by using robotembedded microphones. We have previously reported Missing Featur...
IROS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
— Robot search and rescue is a time critical task, i.e. a large terrain has to be explored by multiple robots within a short amount of time. The efficiency of exploration depend...
IROS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
Information processing within autonomous robots should follow a biomimetic approach. In contrast to traditional approaches that make intensive use of accurate measurements, numeric...
IROS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
— In this paper we present an analysis of 3D line projections for central catadioptric cameras from a projective perspective. Most algorithms consider the projection of lines as ...
IROS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
Abstract— The Sensory Ego-Sphere (SES) is a short-term memory for a robot in the form of an egocentric, tessellated, spherical, sensory-motor map of the robot’s locale. This pa...