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IROS
2008
IEEE
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Control of omni-directional mobile platform with four driving wheels using torque redundancy
— An omni-directional moving platform with four wheels is developed and its controller is designed for tracking desired trajectories. The four wheels of the platform are torque c...
Shunsuke Amagai, Taichi Tsuji, Jabes Samuel, Hisas...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Recognizing texture and hardness by touch
Abstract— We have experimented with different neural network based architectures for bio-inspired self-organizing texture and hardness perception systems. To this end we have dev...
Magnus Johnsson, Christian Balkenius
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Coordinated multi-robot exploration using a segmentation of the environment
— This paper addresses the problem of exploring an unknown environment with a team of mobile robots. The key issue in coordinated multi-robot exploration is how to assign target ...
Kai M. Wurm, Cyrill Stachniss, Wolfram Burgard
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Robotic micro-assembly of microparts using a piezogripper
— This paper deals with robotic micro-assembly of silicon micro-objects whose sizes are tens of micrometers. This production means is one of a more promising approach to realize ...
David Heriban, Michaël Gauthier
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Near-optimal navigation of high speed mobile robots on uneven terrain
—This paper proposes a method for near-optimal navigation of high speed mobile robots on uneven terrain. The method relies on a layered control strategy. A high-level planning la...
Karl Iagnemma, Shingo Shimoda, Zvi Shiller
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Learning nonparametric policies by imitation
— A long cherished goal in artificial intelligence has been the ability to endow a robot with the capacity to learn and generalize skills from watching a human teacher. Such an ...
David B. Grimes, Rajesh P. N. Rao
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Graph signature for self-reconfiguration planning
Masoud Asadpour, Alexander Spröwitz, Aude Bil...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Estimating arm motion and force using EMG signals: On the control of exoskeletons
— There is a great effort during the last decades towards building robotic devices that are worn by humans. These devices, called exoskeletons, are used mainly for support and re...
Panagiotis K. Artemiadis, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Non-contact mesoscale manipulation using laser induced convection flows
— Laser induced convection flows is a new and promising method to achieve better manipulation of mesoscale objects (above 1 µm and below 500 µm) in a liquid medium. The temper...
Emir Vela, Cecile Pacoret, Sylvain Bouchigny, Step...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Apprenticeship learning for motion planning with application to parking lot navigation
— Motion and path-planning algorithms often use complex cost functions for both global navigation and local smoothing of trajectories. Obtaining good results typically requires c...
Pieter Abbeel, Dmitri Dolgov, Andrew Y. Ng, Sebast...