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ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Using Time-of-Flight cameras with active gaze control for 3D collision avoidance
— We propose a 3D obstacle avoidance method for mobile robots. Besides the robot’s 2D laser range finder, a Timeof-Flight camera is used to perceive obstacles that are not in ...
David Droeschel, Dirk Holz, Jörg Stückle...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Explicit coordinated localization using common visual objects
Abstract— Localization in multi-robot systems is a key problem in multi agent systems. In many cases, specially involving legged robots, like the Robocup soccer competition, it r...
Jose Manuel Peula, Javier Cebolla, Cristina Urdial...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Boundary detection based on supervised learning
— Detecting the boundaries of objects is a key step in separating foreground objects from the background, which is useful for robotics and computer vision applications, such as o...
Kiho Kwak, Daniel F. Huber, Jeongsook Chae, Takeo ...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Hierarchical optimization on manifolds for online 2D and 3D mapping
Abstract— In this paper, we present a new hierarchical optimization solution to the graph-based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem. During online mapping, the a...
Giorgio Grisetti, Rainer Kümmerle, Cyrill Sta...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Robotic rehabilitation tasks and measurements of psychophysiological responses
—Rehabilitation robots, together with vision and audio systems form the multimodal environment for exercising the person in a number of ways, unavoidably influencing the physiolo...
Marko Munih, Domen Novak, Jaka Ziherl, Andrej Olen...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Stabilizing a vehicle near rollover: An analogy to cart-pole stabilization
—An analogy between the dynamics of a cart-pole system and vehicle rollover dynamics is used to derive a controller for tipping up and stabilizing a planar model of a passenger v...
Steven C. Peters, James E. Bobrow, Karl Iagnemma
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Towards dynamic team formation for robot ensembles
Abstract— We present an investigation of dynamic team formation strategies for robot ensembles performing a collection of nd two-robot tasks. Specifically, we consider the abstr...
T. William Mather, M. Ani Hsieh, Emilio Frazzoli
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Computing push plans for disk-shaped robots
Suppose we want to move a passive object along a given path, among obstacles in the plane, by pushing it with an active robot. We present two algorithms to compute a push plan for...
Mark de Berg, Dirk H. P. Gerrits
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Fast resolution of hierarchized inverse kinematics with inequality constraints
— Classically, the inverse kinematics is performed by computing the singular value decomposition of the matrix to invert. This enables a very simple writing of the algorithm. How...
Adrien Escande, Nicolas Mansard, Pierre-Brice Wieb...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Approximation of feasibility tests for reactive walk on HRP-2
— We present here an original approach to test the feasibility of footsteps for a given walking pattern generator. It is based on a new approximation algorithm intended to cope w...
Nicolas Perrin, Olivier Stasse, Florent Lamiraux, ...