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Safety Evaluation of Physical Human-Robot Interaction via Crash-Testing
— The light-weight robots developed at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) are characterized by their low inertial properties, torque sensing in each joint and a load to weight rat...
Sami Haddadin, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Gerd Hirzi...
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2007
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An Implicit Time-Stepping Method for Multibody Systems with Intermittent Contact
— In this paper we present an implicit time-stepping scheme for multibody systems with intermittent contact by incorporating the contact constraints as a set of complementarity a...
Nilanjan Chakraborty, Stephen Berard, Srinivas Ake...
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2007
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Automatic Scheduling for Parallel Forward Dynamics Computation of Open Kinematic Chains
— Recent progress in the algorithm as well as the processor power have made the dynamics simulation of complex kinematic chains more realistic in various fields such as human mo...
Katsu Yamane, Yoshihiko Nakamura
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2007
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A Discrete Geometric Optimal Control Framework for Systems with Symmetries
— This paper studies the optimal motion control of mechanical systems through a discrete geometric approach. At the core of our formulation is a discrete Lagrange-d’AlembertPon...
Marin Kobilarov, Mathieu Desbrun, Jerrold E. Marsd...
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Context and Feature Sensitive Re-sampling from Discrete Surface Measurements
— This paper concerns context and feature-sensitive re-sampling of workspace surfaces represented by 3D point clouds. We interpret a point cloud as the outcome of repetitive and ...
Dave Cole, Paul Newman
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2007
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Semantic Modeling of Places using Objects
— While robot mapping has seen massive strides , higher level abstractions in map representation are still not widespread. Maps containing semantic concepts such as objects and l...
Ananth Ranganathan, Frank Dellaert
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2007
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Adaptive Non-Stationary Kernel Regression for Terrain Modeling
— Three-dimensional digital terrain models are of fundamental importance in many areas such as the geo-sciences and outdoor robotics. Accurate modeling requires the ability to de...
Tobias Lang, Christian Plagemann, Wolfram Burgard
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2007
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Vision-Aided Inertial Navigation for Precise Planetary Landing: Analysis and Experiments
Abstract—In this paper, we present the analysis and experimental validation of a vision-aided inertial navigation algorithm for planetary landing applications. The system employs...
Anastasios I. Mourikis, Nikolas Trawny, Stergios I...
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2007
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Discrete Search Leading Continuous Exploration for Kinodynamic Motion Planning
Abstract— This paper presents the Discrete Search Leading continuous eXploration (DSLX) planner, a multi-resolution approach to motion planning that is suitable for challenging p...
Erion Plaku, Lydia E. Kavraki, Moshe Y. Vardi