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ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Experimental evaluation of some exploration strategies for mobile robots
— The ability of building maps of environments where they operate is one of the main requirements for autonomous mobile robots. An efficient map building process is based on a g...
Francesco Amigoni
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Person tracking on a mobile robot with heterogeneous inter-characteristic feedback
— For a mobile robot that interacts with humans such as a home assistant or a tour guide robot, tracking a particular person among multiple persons is a fundamental, yet challeng...
Juhyun Lee, Peter Stone
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Toward designing a robot that learns actions from parental demonstrations
— How to teach actions to a robot as well as how a robot learns actions is an important issue to be discussed in designing robot learning systems. Inspired by human parentinfant ...
Yukie Nagai, Claudia Muhl, Katharina J. Rohlfing
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Active exploration and keypoint clustering for object recognition
— Object recognition is a challenging problem for artificial systems. This is especially true for objects that are placed in cluttered and uncontrolled environments. To challenge...
Gert Kootstra, Jelmer Ypma, Bart de Boer
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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An approximation algorithm for the least overlapping p-Frame problem with non-partial coverage for networked robotic cameras
Abstract— We report our algorithmic development of the pframe problem that addresses the need of coordinating a set of p networked robotic pan-tilt-zoom cameras for n, (n > p)...
Yiliang Xu, Dezhen Song, Jingang Yi, A. Frank van ...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Registration of colored 3D point clouds with a Kernel-based extension to the normal distributions transform
— We present a new algorithm for scan registration of colored 3D point data which is an extension to the Normal Distributions Transform (NDT). The probabilistic approach of NDT i...
Benjamin Huhle, Martin Magnusson 0002, Wolfgang St...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Enlarging regions of stable running with segmented legs
— In human and animal running spring-like leg behavior is found, and similar concepts have been demonstrated by various robotic systems in the past. In general, a spring-mass mod...
Juergen Rummel, Fumiya Iida, James Andrew Smith, A...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Design of a 3D gravity balanced orthosis for upper limb
— This paper describes the design of a gravity balanced spatial orthosis. Previous works introduced planar mechanisms only and neglected friction. They relied on counterweight or...
Rani Rizk, Sébastien Krut, Etienne Dombre
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Fast 3D reconstruction of human shape and motion tracking by parallel fast level set method
— This paper presents a parallel algorithm of the Level Set Method named the Parallel Fast Level Set Method, and its application for real-time 3D reconstruction of human shape an...
Yumi Iwashita, Ryo Kurazume, Kenji Hara, Seiichi U...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Visual saliency model for robot cameras
— Recent years have seen an explosion of research on the computational modeling of human visual attention in task free conditions, i.e., given an image predict where humans are l...
Nicholas J. Butko, Lingyun Zhang, Garrison W. Cott...