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ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Integration of impedance control and manipulability regulation for a finger-arm robot
— Motion control algorithms were proposed for a 9-DOF finger-arm robot by using the finger manipulability obtained in a previous study. However, in the previous study, only metho...
Jian Huang, Daisuke Yamada, Takayuki Hori, Masayuk...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Development of insect thorax based flapping mechanism
—Design of a flapping mechanism for flapping wing micro air vehicles (FWMAV) is presented based on a mathematical model of insect thorax. This model also includes an aerodynami...
Zaeem Khan, Kyle Steelman, Sunil Agrawal
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Combining color-based invariant gradient detector with HoG descriptors for robust image detection in scenes under cast shadows
— In this work we present a robust detection method in outdoor scenes under cast shadows using color based invariant gradients in combination with HoG local features. The method ...
Michael Villamizar, Jorge Scandaliaris, Alberto Sa...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Distributed sensor analysis for fault detection in tightly-coupled multi-robot team tasks
— This paper presents a distributed version of our previous work, called SAFDetection, which is a sensor analysisbased fault detection approach that is used to monitor tightlycou...
Xingyan Li, Lynne E. Parker
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Delayed-state information filter for cooperative decentralized tracking
Jesus Capitan, Luis Merino, Fernando Caballero, An...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Harnessing bacterial power in microscale actuation
— This paper presents a systematic analysis of the motion of microscale structures actuated by flagellated bacteria. We perform the study both experimentally and theoretically. ...
A. Agung Julius, M. Selman Sakar, Edward Steager, ...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Probabilistic search optimization and mission assignment for heterogeneous autonomous agents
— This paper presents an algorithmic framework for conducting search and identification missions using multiple heterogeneous agents. Dynamic objects of type “neutral” or ...
Timothy H. Chung, Moshe Kress, Johannes O. Royset
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Anatomically correct testbed hand control: Muscle and joint control strategies
— Human hands are capable of many dexterous grasping and manipulation tasks. To understand human levels of dexterity and to achieve it with robotic hands, we constructed an anato...
Ashish Deshpande, Jonathan Ko, Dieter Fox, Yoky Ma...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Range-only SLAM with a mobile robot and a Wireless Sensor Networks
— This paper presents the localization of a mobile robot while simultaneously mapping the position of the nodes of a Wireless Sensor Network using only range measurements. The ro...
Emanuele Menegatti, Andrea Zanella, Stefano Zilli,...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Analytic error variance predictions for planar vehicles
— Path planning algorithms that incorporate risk and uncertainty need to be able to predict the evolution of pathfollowing error statistics for each candidate plan. We present an...
Matthew Greytak, Franz Hover