IROS
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2007
IEEE
—This paper describes a series of gaits which we developed for a free crawling snake robot. Snake robots, a class of hyper-redundant mechanisms, can use their many degrees of fre...
IROS
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2007
IEEE
— Piezoelectric bending actuators are an attractive option for driving microrobots due to their light weight, scalability, ease of integration and high bandwidth. However, the on...
IROS
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2007
IEEE
— In this paper, we present an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF)-based estimator for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) with processing requirements that are linear in the n...
IROS
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2007
IEEE
Abstract— Although the human hand is a complex biomechanical system, only a small set of features may be necessary for observation learning of functional grasp classes. We explor...
IROS
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2007
IEEE
— This paper presents a hybrid localization scheme for a mobile robot using the hierarchical atlas. The hierarchical atlas is a map that consists of a higher level topological gr...
IROS
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2007
IEEE
— In this article, the authors examine the problem of designing nominal manipulator Jacobians that are optimally fault tolerant to one or more joint failures. In this work, optim...
IROS
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2007
IEEE
— This paper considers the problem of coordinating multiple vehicles with kinodynamic constraints that operate in the same partially-known environment. The vehicles are able to c...
IROS
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2007
IEEE
Abstract— This paper presents a new approach to the intralocalization among a team of robots working in constrained 3D space of urban environments. As the base formation, a team ...
IROS
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2007
IEEE
IROS
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2007
IEEE
—A mobile robot can be a rather significant source of noise: noisy fans cool onboard computers, motors are spinning, rubber wheels are squeaking against the floor, and mechanical...