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ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Minimum Wheel-Rotation Paths for Differential Drive Mobile Robots Among Piecewise Smooth Obstacles
— Computing optimal paths for mobile robots is an interesting and important problem. This paper presents a method to compute the shortest path for a differential-drive mobile rob...
Hamid Reza Chitsaz, Steven M. LaValle
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Design of an Automated Handling System for Limp, Flexible Sheet Lasagna Pasta
—The manipulation of flexible and limp sheet materials is a common requirement in many industrial manufacturing processes, however automation of even simple tasks involving these...
René J. Moreno Masey, Darwin G. Caldwell
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Contact Probe Based Stiffness Sensing of Human Eye by Considering Contact Area
— The contact tonometer is commonly used for measuring the internal eye pressure to diagnose glaucoma. However, the conventional eye pressure measurement is valid only under the ...
Yuichi Kurita, Yoshichika Iida, Roland Kempf, Mako...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Affect Recognition in Robot Assisted Rehabilitation of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
–This paper presents a novel affect-sensitive human-robot interaction framework for rehabilitation of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The overall aim is to enable t...
Changchun Liu, Karla Conn, Nilanjan Sarkar, Wendy ...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Fixed-lag Sampling Strategies for Particle Filtering SLAM
— We describe two new sampling strategies for Rao-Blackwellized particle filtering SLAM. The strategies, called fixed-lag roughening and the block proposal distribution, both e...
Kristopher R. Beevers, Wesley H. Huang
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Scheduling Analysis of Cluster Tools with Buffer/Process Modules
— Modeling and scheduling of cluster tools are critical to improving the productivity and to enhancing the design of wafer processing flows and equipment for semiconductor manuf...
Jingang Yi, Shengwei Ding, Dezhen Song, Mike Tao Z...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Using time-reversal symmetry for stabilizing a simple 3D walker model
— A new method is presented for controlling the lateral foot placement of a simple 3D compass biped model. The method is based on the fact that, in the limit cycle, the gait is t...
Gijs van Oort, Stefano Stramigioli
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Performing Weak Calibration at the Microscale, Application to Micromanipulation
Abstract— We improve and adjust usual weak calibration techniques to the case of stereo video microscopes : Harris detector using a simplex optimization method for feature points...
Julien Bert, Sounkalo Dembélé, Nadin...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Scene Matching between a Map and a Hand Drawn Sketch Using Spatial Relations
—The goal of this work is to determine the object correspondence between a sketched map and the scene depicted by the sketch, e.g., as represented by an occupancy grid map (OGM) ...
Gaurav Parekh, Marjorie Skubic, Ozy Sjahputera, Ja...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Using COTS to Construct a High Performance Robot Arm
Abstract— In this paper we present a design study and technical specifications of a high performance robotic manipulator to be used for ball catching experiments using commercia...
Christian Smith, Henrik I. Christensen