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IROS
2006
IEEE
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Velocity-Bounding Stiff Position Controller
— High-gain PID position control, which is widely used with robots having complex dynamics, involves some risks in cases of abnormal events, such as unexpected environment contac...
Ryo Kikuuwe, Takahiro Yamamoto, Hideo Fujimoto
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Development of a Bioinstrumentation System in the Interaction between a Human and a Robot
- Personal robots, which are expected to become popular in the future, are required to be active in joint work and community life with humans. Such robots must have no bad physical...
Kazuko Itoh, Hiroyasu Miwa, Yuko Nukariya, Massimi...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Coverage Diameters of Polygons
— This paper formalizes and proposes an algorithm to compute coverage diameters of polygons in 2D. Roughly speaking, the coverage diameter of a polygon is the longest possible di...
Pawin Vongmasa, Attawith Sudsang
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Finding Resonance: Adaptive Frequency Oscillators for Dynamic Legged Locomotion
— There is much to gain from providing walking machines with passive dynamics, e.g. by including compliant elements in the structure. These elements can offer interesting propert...
Jonas Buchli, Fumiya Iida, Auke Jan Ijspeert
IROS
2006
IEEE
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MMALV - The Morphing Micro Air-Land Vehicle
– A sensor platform has been developed that is capable of both aerial and terrestrial locomotion, as well as transitioning between the two. The Morphing Micro Air-Land Vehicle (M...
Kevin Jones, Frank Boria, Richard J. Bachmann, Rav...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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A Video Game-Based Mobile Robot Simulation Environment
— Simulation is becoming an increasingly important aspect of mobile robots. As we are better able to simulate the real world, we can usefully perform more research in simulated e...
Josh Faust, Cheryl Simon, William D. Smart
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Robust Feature Correspondences for Vision-Based Navigation with Slow Frame-Rate Cameras
— We propose a vision-based inertial system that overcomes the problems associated with slow update rates in navigation systems based on high-resolution cameras. Due to bandwidth...
Darius Burschka
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Supervised Learning of Topological Maps using Semantic Information Extracted from Range Data
Abstract— This paper presents an approach to create topological maps from geometric maps obtained with a mobile robot in an indoor-environment using range data. Our approach util...
Óscar Martínez Mozos, Wolfram Burgar...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Vehicle Trajectory from an Uncalibrated Stereo-Rig with Super-Homography
— We present in this article an original manner to estimate the trajectory of a vehicle running in urban-like areas. The method consists in extracting then tracking features (poi...
Nicolas Simond, Claude Laurgeau