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ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Optimal Control Using Nonholonomic Integrators
Abstract— This paper addresses the optimal control of nonholonomic systems through provably correct discretization of the system dynamics. The essence of the approach lies in the...
Marin Kobilarov, Gaurav Sukhatme
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Identifying the Failure-Tolerant Workspace Boundaries of a Kinematically Redundant Manipulator
— In addition to possessing a number of other important properties, kinematically redundant manipulators are inherently more tolerant to locked-joint failures than nonredundant m...
Rodney G. Roberts, Rodrigo S. Jamisola, Anthony A....
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Design and Evaluation of a Linear Haptic Device
—The commercial development of haptic devices is very promising. Existing systems are often 6-degree-of-freedom mechanisms equipped with a stylus that acts as a tool. They exhibi...
Laurent Barbé, Bernard Bayle, Jacques Gangl...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Simulation Issues in Haptics
Abstract— In this paper, two problems related to the simulation of virtual environments for haptic systems are considered. The first problem is how to simulate, in discrete time...
Gianni Borghesan, Alessandro Macchelli, Claudio Me...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Full Motion Tracking in Ultrasound Using Image Speckle Information and Visual Servoing
— This paper presents a new visual servoing method that is able to stabilize a moving area of soft tissue within an ultrasound B-mode imaging plane. The approach consists of movi...
Alexandre Krupa, Gabor Fichtinger, Gregory D. Hage...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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A Spatially Structured Genetic Algorithm over Complex Networks for Mobile Robot Localisation
— One of the most important problems in Mobile Robotics is to realise the complete robot’s autonomy. In order to achieve this goal several tasks have to be accomplished. Among ...
Andrea Gasparri, Stefano Panzieri, Federica Pascuc...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Development of Multi-fingered Hand for Life-size Humanoid Robots
— This paper presents a development of multi-fingered hand, which is modularized and can be attached to life-size humanoid robots. The developed hand has four fingers with 17 joi...
Kenji Kaneko, Kensuke Harada, Fumio Kanehiro
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Autonomous Robotic Sensing Experiments at San Joaquin River
Abstract— Distributed, high-density spatiotemporal observations are proposed for answering many river-related questions, including those pertaining to hydraulics and multi-dimens...
Amarjeet Singh 0003, Maxim A. Batalin, Victor Chen...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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EigenNail for Finger Force Direction Recognition
Abstract— This paper presents a technique termed EigenNails to classify fingertip force during contact based on the coloration patterns in the fingernail and surrounding skin. ...
Yu Sun, John M. Hollerbach, Stephen A. Mascaro
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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The Cost of Reality: Effects of Real-World Factors on Multi-Robot Search
— Designing algorithms for multi-robot systems can be a complex and difficult process: the cost of such systems can be very high, collecting experimental data can be timeconsumi...
Jim Pugh, Alcherio Martinoli