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ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Manipulation Planning for Unraveling Linear Objects
— A planning method for unraveling manipulation of deformable linear objects is proposed. In manipulation of a linear object, its raveling must be avoided. It takes much time to ...
Hidefumi Wakamatsu, Akira Tsumaya, Eiji Arai, Shin...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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AutoPower: Toward Energy-aware Software Systems for Distributed Mobile Robots
— Autonomous robot systems have to manage their energy wisely in order to complete their missions. Typical approaches seek to conserve energy by energy-efficient motion or senso...
Keith J. O'Hara, Ripal Nathuji, Himanshu Raj, Kars...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Hierarchical Abstractions for Robotic Swarms
Marius Kloetzer, Calin Belta
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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People Tracking and Following with Mobile Robot using an Omnidirectional Camera and a Laser
Abstract— The paper presents two different methods for mobile robot tracking and following of a fast-moving person in outdoor unstructured and possibly dynamic environment. The r...
Marin Kobilarov, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Jeff Hyams, P...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Robust Motion Capture System against Target Occlusion using Fast Level Set Method
Yumi Iwashita, Ryo Kurazume, Tsutomu Hasegawa, Ken...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Stereo based Obstacle Detection for an Unmanned Air Vehicle
— This paper presents the Visual Threat Awareness (VISTA) system for real time collision obstacle detection for an unmanned air vehicle (UAV). Computational stereo performance ha...
Jeffrey Byrne, Martin Cosgrove, Raman K. Mehra
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Hierarchical Control for Self-assembling Mobile Trusses with Passive and Active Links
— This paper explores the space of active modular trusses, ranging from a passive truss with one independent active climbing module to fully self-reconfiguring dynamically contr...
Carrick Detweiler, Marsette Vona, Keith Kotay, Dan...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Bayesian Estimation for Autonomous Object Manipulation based on Tactile Sensors
Abstract— We consider the problem of autonomously estimating position and orientation of an object from tactile data. When initial uncertainty is high, estimation of all six para...
Anna Petrovskaya, Oussama Khatib, Sebastian Thrun,...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Disturbance Robustness Measures for Underconstrained Cable-driven Robots
Abstract— This paper investigates the robustness of underconstrained cable-driven robots to external disturbance wrenches (force/moment combinations). Two cases are considered: i...
Paul Bosscher, Imme Ebert-Uphoff