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IROS
2006
IEEE
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Imitation Learning of Whole-Body Grasps
Abstract— A system is detailed here for using imitation learning to teach a robot to grasp objects using both hand and wholebody grasps, which use the arms and torso as well as h...
Kaijen Hsiao, Tomás Lozano-Pérez
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Vision-based Motion Planning for an Autonomous Motorcycle on Ill-Structured Road
— We report our development of a vision-based motion planning system for an autonomous motorcycle designed for desert terrain, where uniform road surface and lane markings are no...
Dezhen Song, Hyun Nam Lee, Jingang Yi, Anthony Lev...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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ADE: A Framework for Robust Complex Robotic Architectures
— Robots that can interact naturally with humans require the integration and coordination of many different components with heavy computational demands. We argue that an architec...
James F. Kramer, Matthias Scheutz
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Reliability-Based Design Optimization of Robotic System Dynamic Performance
In this investigation a robotic system’s dynamic performance is optimized for high reliability under uncertainty. The dynamic capability equations allow designers to predict the...
Alan P. Bowling, John E. Renaud, Jeremy T. Newkirk...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Spatial Reasoning for Real-time Robotic Manipulation
Abstract – Presented in this paper is an approach to realtime spatial reasoning for manipulative robotic tasks. When a service robot is requested to manipulate an object, it shou...
Han-Young Jang, Hadi Moradi, Suyeon Hong, Sukhan L...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Mission Reliability Estimation for Multirobot Team Design
 One reason given for the use of multirobot systems is that many cheap robots are more reliable than one expensive robot. To date, however, there has been no quantitative analys...
S. B. Stancliff, John M. Dolan, Ashitey Trebi-Olle...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Multi-Level Surface Maps for Outdoor Terrain Mapping and Loop Closing
— To operate outdoors or on non-flat surfaces, mobile robots need appropriate data structures that provide a compact representation of the environment and at the same time suppo...
Rudolph Triebel, Patrick Pfaff, Wolfram Burgard
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Multi-robot SLAM with Unknown Initial Correspondence: The Robot Rendezvous Case
Abstract— This paper presents a new approach to the multirobot map-alignment problem that enables teams of robots to build joint maps without initial knowledge of their relative ...
Xun S. Zhou, Stergios I. Roumeliotis
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Visual Servo Velocity and Pose Control of a Wheeled Inverted Pendulum through Partial-Feedback Linearization
— Vision-based control of wheeled vehicles is a difficult problem due to nonholonomic constraints on velocities. This is further complicated in the control of vehicles with drif...
Nicholas R. Gans, Seth Hutchinson
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Learning to Drive Among Obstacles
— This paper reports on an outdoor mobile robot that learns to avoid collisions by observing a human driver operate a vehicle equipped with sensors that continuously produce a ma...
Bradley Hamner, Sebastian Scherer, Sanjiv Singh