ICRA
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE
— The problem of appearance-based mapping and navigation in outdoor environments is far from trivial. In this paper, an appearance-based topological map, covering a large, mixed ...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE
— Despite all the progress that has been made in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, traditional approaches seem unsuitable to build truly intelligent robots, exhibiting human...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE
— Legged robots have the potential to navigate a much larger variety of terrain than their wheeled counterparts. In this paper we present a hierarchical control architecture that...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE
Abstract— This paper presents the design of a 14 degree-ofmotion forearm actuation unit for an upper extremity prosthesis. The forearm utilizes pneumatic type actuators which use...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE
Abstract— Safety is a critical characteristic for robots designed to operate in human environments. This paper presents the concept of hybrid actuation for the development of hum...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE
— We present a set of tools and a process, making use of inexpensive and environmentally friendly materials, that enable the rapid realization of fully functional large scale pro...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE
Abstract— We present and examine a technique for estimating the ego-motion of a mobile robot using memory-based learning and a monocular camera. Unlike other approaches that rely...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE
— In this paper, we lay the groundwork for extending our previously developed ASyMTRe architecture to enable constructivist learning for multi-robot team tasks. The ASyMTRe archi...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE
— In this paper we present a polynomial Navigation Function (NF) for a sphere world that can be constructed almost locally, with partial knowledge of the environment. The present...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE
Abstract— This paper studies the sequential object recognition problem faced by a mobile robot searching for specific objects within a cluttered environment. In contrast to curr...