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ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Implementation of Bio-Inspired Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex in a Quadrupedal Robot
— Studies of primate locomotion have shown that the head and eyes are stabilized in space through the vestibulo-collic and vestibulo ocular Reflexes (VCR, VOR). The VOR is a refl...
Ravi Kaushik, Marek Marcinkiewicz, Jizhong Xiao, S...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Learning Combinatorial Information from Alignments of Landmarks
Luigi Freda, Benjamín Tovar, Steven M. LaVa...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Design and Optimization of a Biologically Inspired Flapping Mechanism for Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicles
Abstract—In this paper, we investigate design and performance of a flapping mechanism which generates flapping motion through resonant excitation similar to flight apparatus o...
Zaeem A. Khan, Sunil Kumar Agrawal
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Leveraging RSSI for Robotic Repair of Disconnected Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract— Many recent deployments of environmental sensor networks have focused on obtaining measurements across large and inhospitable areas. With increasing scale it becomes im...
Kyle Luthy, Edward Grant, Thomas C. Henderson
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Determining the Robot-to-Robot Relative Pose Using Range-only Measurements
Abstract— In this paper we address the problem of determining the relative pose of pairs robots that move on a plane while measuring the distance to each other. We show that the ...
Xun S. Zhou, Stergios I. Roumeliotis
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Robotic Discovery of the Auditory Scene
- In this work, we describe an autonomous mobile robotic system for finding and investigating ambient noise sources in the environment. Motivated by the large negative effect of am...
Eric Martinson, Alan C. Schultz
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Techniques and Applications for Persistent Backgrounding in a Humanoid Torso Robot
— One of the most basic capabilities for an agent with a vision system is to recognize its own surroundings. Yet surprisingly, despite the ease of doing so, many robots store lit...
David Walker Duhon, Jerod J. Weinman, Erik G. Lear...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Locally Computable Navigation Functions for Sphere Worlds
Abstract— In this paper we present a new Navigation Function for a sphere world that can be computed locally with limited knowledge of the environment. By requiring smooth and no...
Grigoris Lionis, Xanthi Papageorgiou, Kostas J. Ky...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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The Corridor Map Method: Real-Time High-Quality Path Planning
— A central problem in robotics is planning a collision-free path for a moving object in an environment with obstacles. Contemporary applications require a path planner that is f...
Roland Geraerts, Mark H. Overmars
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Hybrid Model Predictive Control for Stabilization of Wheeled Mobile Robots Subject to Wheel Slippage
— This paper studies the problem of stabilizing wheeled mobile robots (WMRs) subject to wheel slippage to a predefined set. When slippage of the wheels can occur, WMRs can be mo...
Shangming Wei, Milos Zefran, Kasemsak Uthaichana, ...