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ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Decentralized, Adaptive Control for Coverage with Networked Robots
— A decentralized, adaptive control law is presented to drive a network of mobile robots to a near-optimal sensing configuration. The control law is adaptive in that it integrat...
Mac Schwager, Jean-Jacques E. Slotine, Daniela Rus
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Robust Distributed Coverage using a Swarm of Miniature Robots
Abstract— For the multi-robot coverage problem deterministic deliberative as well as probabilistic approaches have been proposed. Whereas deterministic approaches usually provide...
Nikolaus Correll, Alcherio Martinoli
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Visual Categorization Robust to Large Intra-Class Variations using Entropy-guided Codebook
Abstract— Categorizing visual elements is fundamentally important for autonomous mobile robots to get intelligence such as new object acquisition and topological place classific...
Sungho Kim, In-So Kweon, Chil-Woo Lee
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Vegetation Detection for Driving in Complex Environments
— A key challenge for autonomous navigation in cluttered outdoor environments is the reliable discrimination between obstacles that must be avoided at all costs, and lesser obsta...
David M. Bradley, Ranjith Unnikrishnan, James Bagn...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Adaptive Sampling for Multi-Robot Wide-Area Exploration
— The exploration problem is a central issue in mobile robotics. A complete coverage is not practical if the environment is large with a few small hotspots, and the sampling cost...
Kian Hsiang Low, Geoffrey J. Gordon, John M. Dolan...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Identification of the payload inertial parameters of industrial manipulators
— In this paper we present four methods for the identification of the inertial parameters of the load of a manipulator. The knowledge of the values of these parameters can be use...
Wisama Khalil, Maxime Gautier, Philippe Lemoine
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Acceleration-level control of the CyberCarpet
Alessandro De Luca, Raffaella Mattone, Paolo Robuf...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Passive Virtual Fixtures Based on Simulated Position-Dependent Anisotropic Plasticity
— This paper presents an approach for producing virtual fixture based on simulated plasticity, which can be used for assisting precise manual manipulations performed by human us...
Ryo Kikuuwe, Naoyuki Takesue, Hideo Fujimoto
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Automatic Outlier Detection: A Bayesian Approach
— In order to achieve reliable autonomous control in advanced robotic systems like entertainment robots, assistive robots, humanoid robots and autonomous vehicles, sensory data n...
Jo-Anne Ting, Aaron D'Souza, Stefan Schaal
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Whole body adhesion: hierarchical, directional and distributed control of adhesive forces for a climbing robot
— We describe the design and control of a new bio-inspired climbing robot designed to scale smooth vertical surfaces using directional adhesive materials. The robot, called Stick...
Sangbae Kim, Matthew Spenko, Salomon Trujillo, Bar...