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ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Data-driven optimization for underactuated robotic hands
— Passively adaptive and underactuated robotic hands have shown the potential to achieve reliable grasping in unstructured environments without expensive mechanisms or sensors. I...
Matei T. Ciocarlie, Peter K. Allen
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Optimal Feedback Control for anthropomorphic manipulators
— We study target reaching tasks of redundant anthropomorphic manipulators under the premise of minimal energy consumption and compliance during motion. We formulate this motor c...
Djordje Mitrovic, Sho Nagashima, Stefan Klanke, Ta...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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On the solvability of the Mutual Localization problem with Anonymous Position Measures
— This paper formulates and investigates a novel problem called Mutual Localization with Anonymous Position Measures. This is an extension of Mutual Localization with Position Me...
Antonio Franchi, Giuseppe Oriolo, Paolo Stegagno
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Multiple relative pose graphs for robust cooperative mapping
Abstract— This paper describes a new algorithm for cooperative and persistent simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) using multiple robots. Recent pose graph representation...
Been Kim, Michael Kaess, Luke Fletcher, John J. Le...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Retraction-based RRT planner for articulated models
— We present a new retraction algorithm for high DOF articulated models and use our algorithm to improve the performance of RRT planners in narrow passages. The retraction step i...
Jia Pan, Liangjun Zhang, Dinesh Manocha
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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3-D shape measurement of pipe by range finder constructed with omni-directional laser and omni-directional camera
— A lot of plumbings such as gas pipes and water pipes exist in public utilities, factories, power plants and so on. It is difficult for humans to inspect them directly because t...
Kenki Matsui, Atsushi Yamashita, Toru Kaneko
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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A model for concentric tube continuum robots under applied wrenches
Abstract— Continuum robots made from telescoping precurved elastic tubes enable base-mounted actuators to specify the curved shapes of robots as thin as standard surgical needles...
D. Caleb Rucker, Bryan A. Jones, Robert J. Webster...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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A tunable physical model of arthropod antennae
— Insects rely on sensory cues—tactile, hygrometric, thermal, olfactory—gathered with a pair of head-mounted antennae to perform a wide variety of sensory guided tasks. Many ...
Alican Demir, Edward W. Samson, Noah J. Cowan
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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All-weather perception for man-portable robots using ultra-wideband radar
—Autonomous man-portable robots have the potential to provide a wide range of new capabilities for both military and civilian applications. Previous research in autonomy for smal...
Brian Yamauchi