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ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filtering for 6-DOF Estimation of Attitude and Position via GPS and Inertial Sensors
— The authors present an innovative method for the efficient joint estimation of attitude and position in six degrees of freedom via sensors such as GPS, inertial measurement un...
Paul Vernaza, Daniel D. Lee
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Graphical Singularity Analysis of Planar Parallel Manipulators
- This paper introduces a new approach to identify singularities of planar parallel manipulators (PPMs). This method is based on Maxwell’s reciprocal figure theory which establis...
Amir Degani, Alon Wolf
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Pushing using Compliance
— This paper addresses the problem of maneuvering an object by pushing it through an environment with obstacles. Instead of only pushing the object through open spaces, we also a...
Dennis Nieuwenhuisen, A. Frank van der Stappen, Ma...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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A Hybrid Method for 6-DOF Tracking of MRI-compatible Robotic Interventional Devices
Abstract— This paper reports a novel hybrid method of tracking the position and orientation of robotic medical instruments within the imaging volume of a magnetic resonance imagi...
Axel Krieger, G. Metzger, Gabor Fichtinger, Ergin ...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Human Motion Recognition with a Convolution Kernel
Abstract— We address the problem of human motion recognition in this paper. The goal of human motion recognition is to recognize the type of motion recorded in a video clip, whic...
Dongwei Cao, Osama Masoud, Daniel Boley
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Localization with Omnidirectional Images using the Radial Trifocal Tensor
— In this paper we present a technique to linearly recover 2D structure and motion in man made environments from three uncalibrated omnidirectional views. We use vertical lines f...
Carlos Sagüés, A. C. Murillo, Jos&eacu...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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A Minimum Variance Calibration Algorithm for Pan-tilt Robotic Cameras in Natural Environments
— A new generation of inexpensive robotic pan-tilt cameras can maintain high-resolution panoramic displays of natural environments. However, the pan-tilt mechanisms are imprecise...
Dezhen Song, Ni Qin, Kenneth Y. Goldberg
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Model-based Estimation of Off-highway Road Geometry using Single-axis LADAR and Inertial Sensing
Abstract— This paper applies some previously studied extended Kalman filter techniques for planar road geometry estimation to the domain of autonomous navigation of offhighway v...
Lars B. Cremean, Richard M. Murray
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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A SVM-based Method for Engine Maintenance Strategy Optimization
— Due to the abundant application background, the optimization of maintenance problem has been extensively studied in the past decades. Besides the well-known difficulty of larg...
Qing-Shan Jia, Qianchuan Zhao