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ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Ridge-valley Path Planning for 3D Terrains
Abstract— This paper presents a tactical path planning algorithm for following ridges or valleys across a 3D terrain. The intent is to generate a path that enables an unmanned ve...
David L. Page, Andreas Koschan, Mongi A. Abidi, Ja...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Bilateral Control of a Teleoperator for Soft Tissue Palpation: Design and Experiments
Abstract— In robot-assisted interventions, providing a surgeon with haptic information regarding contacts made between surgical instruments and tissue can improve task performanc...
Mahdi Tavakoli, Rajnikant V. Patel, Mehrdad Moalle...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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A Framework for Vision Based bearing only 3D SLAM
— This paper presents a framework for 3D vision based bearing only SLAM using a single camera, an interesting setup for many real applications due to its low cost. The focus in i...
Patric Jensfelt, Danica Kragic, John Folkesson, M&...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Wheel-ground Interaction Modelling and Torque Distribution for a Redundant Mobile Robot
Abstract— An operational space dynamic model of a redundantly actuated wheeled mobile robot taking into account the wheel-ground interaction is derived based on vehicle dynamics....
Yuan Ping Li, Teresa Zielinska, Marcelo H. Ang Jr....
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Model and Control of Tendon-sheath Transmission Systems
— In this paper, the tendon-sheath driving system for a robotic hand is presented and its force transmission characteristics are analyzed. The use of tendon-based transmission pe...
Gianluca Palli, Claudio Melchiorri
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Using Reinforcement Learning to Improve Exploration Trajectories for Error Minimization
Abstract— The mapping and localization problems have received considerable attention in robotics recently. The exploration problem that drives mapping has started to generate sim...
Thomas Kollar, Nicholas Roy
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Passive Bilateral Teleoperation with Constant Time Delays
— We propose a novel control framework for bilateral teleoperation of a pair of multi-degree-of-freedom (DOF) nonlinear robotic systems under constant communication delays. The p...
Dongjun Lee, Mark W. Spong
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Modelling based on Supervised Neural Networks
This paper proposes the utilization of hybrid models of supervised neural networks for the modelling of dynamic systems. Particularly, as an example of a system, a autonomous helic...
Rodrigo San Martin, Antonio Barrientos, Pedro Guti...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Time Optimal Control for Quadruped Walking Robots
- Time optimal control method for quadruped walking robots are developed and installed into a practical robot system. Each leg is modeled as a two link manipulator whose time optim...
Hisashi Osumi, Shogo Kamiya, Hirokazu Kato, Kazuno...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Distributed Coverage with Multi-robot System
– In this paper, we proposed an improved algorithm for the multi-robot complete coverage problem. Real world applications such as lawn mowing, chemical spill clean-up, and humani...
Chan Sze Kong, Ai Peng New, Ioannis M. Rekleitis