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ICRA
2006
IEEE
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An Intelligent Joystick for Biped Control
— We present the concept of an “intelligent” joystick, an architecture which provides simple and intuitive high-level directional control of a legged robot while adjusting th...
Joel E. Chestnutt, Philipp Michel, Koichi Nishiwak...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Distributed Diagnosis of Coupled Mobile Robots
— Fault diagnosis of coupled mobile robots requires a large number of measurements to be communicated either between the robots or from the robots to a central diagnoser. As comp...
Matthew J. Daigle, Xenofon D. Koutsoukos, Gautam B...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Development of a Lightweight, Underactuated Exoskeleton for Load-carrying Augmentation
- Metabolic studies have shown that there is a metabolic cost associated with carrying load [1]. Several leg exoskeletons have been developed by various groups in an attempt to aug...
Conor James Walsh, Daniel Paluska, Kenneth Pasch, ...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Anytime Path Planning and Replanning in Dynamic Environments
— We present an efficient, anytime method for path planning in dynamic environments. Current approaches to planning in such domains either assume that the environment is static ...
Jur P. van den Berg, Dave Ferguson, James Kuffner
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Constrained Control for Surgical Assistant Robots
— This paper presents an approach to implement virtual fixtures for surgical robot assistants. Our approach uses a weighted, multi-objective (both linear and nonlinear) constrai...
Ankur Kapoor, Ming Li, Russell H. Taylor
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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On the Treatment of Relative-pose Measurements for Mobile Robot Localization
— In this paper, we study the problem of localization using relative-state estimates. It is shown, that when the same exteroceptive sensor measurement is processed for the comput...
Anastasios I. Mourikis, Stergios I. Roumeliotis
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Characterization of Protein based Spring-like Elastic Joints for Biorobotic Applications
—This paper presents a molecular mechanics study using a molecular dynamics software (NAMD) for characterization of molecular elastic joints for bio nanorobotic prototyping. Simp...
Mustapha Hamdi, Gaurav Sharma, Antoine Ferreira, C...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Controlling three Dimensional Swarms of Robots
— We address the problem of modeling and controlling a swarm of fully actuated point-like robots in three dimensions by generalizing the planar framework from [1]. We define a e...
Nathan Michael, Calin Belta, Vijay Kumar
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Study on Hemispherical Soft-fingered Handling for fine Manipulation by Minimum D.O.F. Robotic Hand
— This paper provides that an elastic force and an elastic potential energy due to the deformation of soft fingers, which are previously derived, can be calculated into straight...
Takahiro Inoue, Shinichi Hirai