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ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Autonomous Control of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Towing a Vector Sensor Array
— This paper is about the autonomous control of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), and the particular considerations required to allow proper control while towing a 100-mete...
Michael R. Benjamin, David Battle, Donald P. Eicks...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Learning and Evaluation of the Approach Vector for Automatic Grasp Generation and Planning
— In this paper, we address the problem of automatic grasp generation for robotic hands where experience and shape primitives are used in synergy so to provide a basis not only f...
Staffan Ekvall, Danica Kragic
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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daVinci Code: A Multi-Model Simulation and Analysis Tool for Multi-Body Systems
Abstract— This paper discusses the design and current capabilities of a new software tool, dVC, capable of simulating planar systems of bodies experiencing unilateral contacts wi...
Stephen Berard, Jeffrey C. Trinkle, Binh Nguyen, B...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Virtual Fixture Control for Compliant Human-Machine Interfaces
— In human-machine collaborative systems, robot joint compliance and human-input dynamics lead to involuntary tool motion into undesired regions. To correct this, a set of method...
Panadda Marayong, Hye Sun Na, Allison M. Okamura
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Behavior Based Adaptive Control for Autonomous Oceanographic Sampling
Abstract— This paper describes an investigation into the adaptive control of autonomous mobile sensor platforms for providing oceanographic sampling. Mobile sensor platforms prov...
Donald P. Eickstedt, Michael R. Benjamin, Ding Wan...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Frame-Frame Matching for Realtime Consistent Visual Mapping
Many successful indoor mapping techniques employ frame-to-frame matching of laser scans to produce detailed local maps, as well as closing large loops. In this paper, we propose a ...
Kurt Konolige, Motilal Agrawal
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Probabilistic Estimation of Whole Body Contacts for Multi-Contact Robot Control
Abstract— Today most robots interact with the surroundings only with their end-effectors. However there are many benefits to utilizing contact along the entire length of robot b...
Anna Petrovskaya, Jaeheung Park, Oussama Khatib
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Particle Filtering on the Euclidean Group
Abstract— We address general filtering problems on the Euclidean group SE(3). We first generalize, to stochastic nonlinear systems evolving on SE(3), the particle filter of Li...
Junghyun Kwon, Minseok Choi, Changmook Chun, Frank...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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A Force-Feedback Algorithm for Adaptive Articulated-Body Dynamics Simulation
— This paper introduces a novel algorithm for haptic interaction with an adaptive simulation of articulated-body dynamics. Our algorithm has a multi-threaded structure, which all...
Sandy Morin, Stephane Redon
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Heterogeneous Leg Stiffness and Roll in Dynamic Running
— Legged robots are by nature strongly non-linear, high-dimensional systems whose full complexity permits neither tractable mathematical analysis nor comprehensive numerical stud...
Samuel Burden, Jonathan Clark, Joel Weingarten, Ha...