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ICRA
2009
IEEE
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On the kinematic modeling and control of a mobile platform equipped with steering wheels and movable legs
— Mobile platforms equipped with several steering wheels are known to be omnidirectional, i.e., able to independently translate and rotate on the plane. As an improvement to this...
Paolo Robuffo Giordano, Matthias Fuchs, Alin Albu-...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Integration of multi-level postural balancing on humanoid robots
Abstract— This paper discusses an integration issue of multilevel postural balancing on humanoid robot. We give a unified viewpoint of postural balancing, which covers Ankle Str...
Sang-Ho Hyon, Rieko Osu, Yohei Otaka
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Object recognition and full pose registration from a single image for robotic manipulation
— Robust perception is a vital capability for robotic manipulation in unstructured scenes. In this context, full pose estimation of relevant objects in a scene is a critical step...
Alvaro Collet, Dmitry Berenson, Siddhartha S. Srin...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Interactive segmentation for manipulation in unstructured environments
Abstract— To perform successful manipulation, robots depend on information about objects in their environment. In unstructured environments, such information cannot be given to t...
Jacqueline Kenney, Thomas Buckley, Oliver Brock
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Global path planning for robust Visual Servoing in complex environments
Abstract— We incorporate sampling-based global path planning with Visual Servoing (VS) for a robotic arm equipped with an in-hand camera. The path planning accounts for a number ...
Moslem Kazemi, Kamal K. Gupta, Mehran Mehrandezh
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Multi-robot coordination using generalized social potential fields
Abstract— We present a novel approach to compute collisionfree paths for multiple robots subject to local coordination constraints. More specifically, given a set of robots, the...
Russell Gayle, William Moss, Ming C. Lin, Dinesh M...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Optimal coverage for multiple hovering robots with downward facing cameras
— This paper presents a distributed control strategy for deploying hovering robots with multiple downward facing cameras to collectively monitor an environment. Information per p...
Mac Schwager, Brian J. Julian, Daniela Rus
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Modeling and motion planning for mechanisms on a non-inertial base
— Robotic manipulators on ships and platforms suffer from large inertial forces due to the non-inertial motion of the ship or platform. When operating in high sea state, operatio...
Pål Johan From, Vincent Duindam, Jan Tommy G...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Graph-based robust shape matching for robotic application
— Shape is one of the useful information for object detection. The human visual system can often recognize objects based on the 2-D outline shape alone. In this paper, we address...
Hanbyul Joo, Yekeun Jeong, Olivier Duchenne, Seong...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Task-level imitation learning using variance-based movement optimization
— Recent advances in the field of humanoid robotics increase the complexity of the tasks that such robots can perform. This makes it increasingly difficult and inconvenient to ...
Manuel Mühlig, Michael Gienger, Sven Hellbach...