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ICRA
2006
IEEE
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An Analysis of Rollover Stability Measurement for High-speed Mobile Robots
– Mobile robots and passenger vehicles are frequently required to operate at high speeds, on terrain that is sloped or uneven. These systems can be susceptible to rollover, parti...
Steven C. Peters, Karl Iagnemma
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Simultaneous Pose and Velocity Measurement by Vision for High-speed Robots
— This paper proposes an original and novel vision sensing method to be used in vision-based dynamic identification of parallel robots. Indeed, it is shown that in the latter pr...
Omar Ait-Aider, Nicolas Andreff, Philippe Martinet...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Scalable Shape Sculpting via Hole Motion: Motion Planning in Lattice-constrained Modular Robots
— We describe a novel shape formation algorithm for ensembles of 2-dimensional lattice-arrayed modular robots, based on the manipulation of regularly shaped voids within the latt...
Michael DeRosa, Seth Copen Goldstein, Peter Lee, J...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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A Universal Stability Criterion of the Foot Contact of Legged Robots - Adios ZMP
— This paper proposes a universal stability criterion of the foot contact of legged robots. The proposed method checks if the sum of the gravity and the inertia wrench applied to...
Hirohisa Hirukawa, Shizuko Hattori, Kensuke Harada...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Global Localization using Odometry
— This paper presents a global localization technique for a robot with only linear and angular odometers. The robot, whose configuration is composed of its position and orientat...
Jason M. O'Kane
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Analysis, Design and Control of a Planar Micro-robot Driven by two Centripetal-force Actuators
– This paper presents the motion analysis, design and position control of a novel, low cost, sliding micro-robot, which is actuated by centripetal forces generated by robot mount...
P. Vartholomeos, Evangelos Papadopoulos
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Fun with Robots: a Student-taught Undergraduate Robotics Course
– We present a lab-based, student-taught robotics course at Carnegie Mellon University entitled Fun With Robots. The course does not require background knowledge of robotics, and...
Steven V. Shamlian, Katherine Killfoile, Ryan Kell...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Object Transport by Modular Robots that Self-assemble
— We present a first attempt to accomplish a simple object manipulation task using the self-reconfigurable robotic system swarm-bot. The number of modular entities involved, th...
Roderich Groß, Elio Tuci, Marco Dorigo, Mich...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Autonomous Enhancement of Disruption Tolerant Networks
— Mobile robots have successfully solved many real world problems. In the following we present the use of mobile robots to address the novel and challenging problem of providing ...
Brendan Burns, Oliver Brock, Brian Neil Levine
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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A Cognitive Modeling of Space using Fingerprints of Places for Mobile Robot Navigation
- In this work we address the problem of perception, spatial cognition and topological navigation for a mobile robot. The objective of this work is to enable the navigation of an a...
Adriana Tapus, Roland Siegwart