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ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Tracking Unobservable Rotations by Cue Integration
— Model based object tracking has earned significant importance in areas such as augmented reality, surveillance, visual servoing, robotic object manipulation and grasping. Alth...
Ville Kyrki, Danica Kragic
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Hybrid Vision-force Robot Control for Tasks on Unknown Smooth Surfaces
— This work considers a hybrid force and vision control system for robotic manipulators using a force sensor and a fixed uncalibrated camera. A method is proposed to combine dir...
Antonio C. Leite, Fernando C. Lizarralde, Liu Hsu
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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A Multi-robot System for Continuous Area Sweeping Tasks
— As mobile robots become increasingly autonomous over extended periods of time, opportunities arise for their use on repetitive tasks. We define and implement behaviors for a c...
Mazda Ahmadi, Peter Stone
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Multi-model Tracking using Team Actuation Models
Abstract— Robots need to track object. Object tracking efficiency completely depends on the accuracy of the motion model and of the sensory information. Interestingly, when mult...
Yang Gu, Manuela M. Veloso
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Automatic Calibration of a Robotized 3D Ultrasound Imaging System by Visual Servoing
— Three-dimensional free-hand ultrasound imaging consists of capturing a set of ultrasound images with a 2D ultrasound system and their respective locations in order to position ...
Alexandre Krupa
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Biped Gait Optimization using Spline Function based Probability Model
— A new Estimation of Distribution Algorithm (EDA) with spline kernel function (EDA_S) is proposed to optimize biped gait for a nine-link humanoid robot. Gait synthesis of the bi...
Lingyun Hu, Changjiu Zhou, Zengqi Sun
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Grasp Recognition in Virtual Reality for Robot Pregrasp Planning by Demonstration
Abstract— This paper describes a virtual reality based Programming by Demonstration system for grasp recognition in manipulation tasks and robot pregrasp planning. The system cla...
Jacopo Aleotti, Stefano Caselli
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Distributed Construction by Mobile Robots with Enhanced Building Blocks
— We describe a system in which autonomous robots assemble two-dimensional structures out of square building blocks. A fixed set of local control rules is sufficient for a grou...
Justin Werfel, Yaneer Bar-Yam, Daniela Rus, Radhik...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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A Sociable Robot to Encourage Social Interaction among the Elderly
— In this paper, we present evidence that although
Cory D. Kidd, Will Taggart, Sherry Turkle