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MRC
2003
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Lewis the Graduate Student: An Entry in the AAAI Robot Challenge
In this paper, we describe Lewis the Graduate Student, Washington University’s entry in the AAAI Mobile Robot Competition Challenge Event. Lewis successfully completed a modifi...
William D. Smart, Michael Dixon, Nik A. Melchior, ...
MRC
2003
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A Human-Robot Interface for Urban Search and Rescue
This paper describes the Swarthmore College entry in the 2003 Urban Search and Rescue [USR] Event at the 2003 American Association for Artificial Intelligence Robot Competition. ...
Bruce A. Maxwell, Nicolas Ward, Frederick Heckel
MRC
2003
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ButlerBot: The Robotic Butler
ButlerBot is a robotic butler created to cater to people’s questions at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2003 conference and to escort peopl...
Diana David, Zion Adika, Liu Yang, Vitaly Bokser, ...
MRC
2003
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The Keystone Fire Brigade 2003
The Keystone Fire Brigade is a robotic rescue team that has previously competed in competitions at Robocup (Fukuoka, 2002; Padua 2003), AAAI (Edmonton, 2002), and IJCAI (Acapulco,...
Jacky Baltes, John Anderson
RSS
2007
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Passivity-Based Switching Control for Stabilization of Wheeled Mobile Robots
— We propose a novel switching control law for the posture stabilization of a wheeled mobile robot, that utilizes the (energetic) passivity of the system’s open-loop dynamics w...
Dongjun Lee
RSS
2007
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Composition of Vector Fields for Multi-Robot Manipulation via Caging
Abstract— This paper describes a novel approach for multirobot caging and manipulation, which relies on the team of robots forming patterns that trap the object to be manipulated...
Jonathan Fink, Nathan Michael, Vijay Kumar
RSS
2007
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A Fast and Practical Algorithm for Generalized Penetration Depth Computation
— We present an efficient algorithm to compute the generalized penetration depth (PDg) between rigid models. Given two overlapping objects, our algorithm attempts to compute the...
Liangjun Zhang, Young J. Kim, Dinesh Manocha
RSS
2007
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The Stochastic Motion Roadmap: A Sampling Framework for Planning with Markov Motion Uncertainty
— We present a new motion planning framework that explicitly considers uncertainty in robot motion to maximize the probability of avoiding collisions and successfully reaching a ...
Ron Alterovitz, Thierry Siméon, Kenneth Y. ...
RSS
2007
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Predicting Partial Paths from Planning Problem Parameters
— Many robot motion planning problems can be described as a combination of motion through relatively sparsely filled regions of configuration space and motion through tighter p...
Sarah Finney, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Tomás ...
RSS
2007
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Motion Strategies for Surveillance
Abstract— We address the problem of surveillance in an environment with obstacles. We show that the problem of tracking an evader with one pursuer around one corner is completely...
Sourabh Bhattacharya, Salvatore Candido, Seth Hutc...