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ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Soft Object Manipulation by Simultaneous Control of Motion and Deformation
— One of features of soft object manipulation is motion during deformation of the soft body. We analyze the stability of soft object manipulation by simultaneous control of motio...
Mizuho Shibata, Shinichi Hirai
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Point-to-point Planning: Methodologies for Underactuated Space Robots
Ioannis Tortopidis, Evangelos Papadopoulos
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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PAW: a Hybrid Wheeled-leg Robot
— This paper discusses current wheeled mobility work on a hybrid wheeled-leg robot called PAW. In addition to providing design details, controllers are proposed for inclined turn...
James Andrew Smith, Inna Sharf, Michael Trentini
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Static Analysis of Contact Forces with a Mobile Manipulator
— Most mobile robots in existence today have large, heavy, statically stable bases. To enable manipulation, actuated arms and effectors are attached to the base providing limited...
Bryan J. Thibodeau, Patrick Deegan, Roderic A. Gru...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Primitive Communication based on Motion Recognition and Generation with Hierarchical Mimesis Model
— Communication skill is essential for social robots in various environments such as homes, offices, and hospitals, where the robots are expected to interact with humans. In thi...
Wataru Takano, Katsu Yamane, Tomomichi Sugihara, K...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Kinematic Modeling and Redundancy Resolution for Nonholonomic Mobile Manipulators
Alessandro De Luca, Giuseppe Oriolo, Paolo Robuffo...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Probabilistic Location Recognition using Reduced Feature Set
Abstract— The localization capability is central to basic navigation tasks and motivates development of various visual navigation systems. In this paper we describe a two stage a...
Fayin Li, Jana Kosecka
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Learning to Predict Slip for Ground Robots
— In this paper we predict the amount of slip an exploration rover would experience using stereo imagery by learning from previous examples of traversing similar terrain. To do t...
Anelia Angelova, Larry Matthies, Daniel M. Helmick...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Implicit Coordination in Robotic Teams using Learned Prediction Models
— Many application tasks require the cooperation of two or more robots. Humans are good at cooperation in shared workspaces, because they anticipate and adapt to the intentions a...
Freek Stulp, Michael Isik, Michael Beetz
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Using a Qualitative Sketch to Control a Team of Robots
– In this paper, we describe a prototype interface that facilitates the control of a mobile robot team by a single operator, using a sketch interface on a tablet PC. The user ske...
Marjorie Skubic, Derek Anderson, Samuel Blisard, D...