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ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Embedded auditory system for small mobile robots
— Auditory capabilities would allow small robots interacting with people to act according to vocal cues. In our recent work, we have demonstrated AUDIBLE, an auditory system capa...
Simon Brière, Jean-Marc Valin, Franç...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Accurate calibration of intrinsic camera parameters by observing parallel light pairs
— This study describes a method of estimating the intrinsic parameters of a perspective camera. In previous calibration methods for perspective cameras, the intrinsic and extrins...
Ryusuke Sagawa, Yasushi Yagi
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Optimal trajectory generation for nonholonomic robots in dynamic environments
Abstract— We study optimal trajectory generation for nonholonomic mobile robots in the presence of moving obstacles. The trajectory is presented by a parameterized higher-order p...
Yi Guo, Tang Tang
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Inverse agreement algorithms with application to swarm dispersion for multiple nonholonomic agents
— We propose an inverse agreement control strategy for multiple nonholonomic agents that forces the team members to disperse in the workspace in a distributed manner. Both the ca...
Dimos V. Dimarogonas, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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SVM-based discriminative accumulation scheme for place recognition
— Integrating information coming from different sensors is a fundamental capability for autonomous robots. For complex tasks like topological localization, it would be desirable ...
Andrzej Pronobis, Óscar Martínez Moz...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Automatic deployment and formation control of decentralized multi-agent networks
— Novel tools are needed to deploy multi-agent networks in applications that require a high degree of accuracy in the achievement and maintenance of geometric formations. This is...
Brian Stephen Smith, Magnus Egerstedt, Ayanna M. H...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Accelerated appearance-only SLAM
Abstract— This paper describes a probabilistic bail-out condition for multihypothesis testing based on Bennett’s inequality. We investigate the use of the test for increasing t...
Mark Joseph Cummins, Paul M. Newman
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Sparse incremental learning for interactive robot control policy estimation
— We are interested in transferring control policies for arbitrary tasks from a human to a robot. Using interactive demonstration via teloperation as our transfer scenario, we ca...
Daniel H. Grollman, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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How morphology affects self-assembly in a stochastic modular robot
Abstract— Self-assembly is a process through which an organized structure can spontaneously form from simple parts. Taking inspiration from biological examples of self-assembly, ...
Shuhei Miyashita, Max Kessler, Marco Lungarella
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Exploration of an incremental suite of microscopic models for acoustic event monitoring using a robotic sensor network
— Simulation is frequently used in the study of multi-agent systems. Unfortunately, in many cases, it is not necessarily clear how faithfully the details of the simulated model r...
Christopher M. Cianci, Jim Pugh, Alcherio Martinol...