ICWSM
2010
13 years 8 months ago
2010
In this paper we examine the effects of noise when creating a real-world weblog corpus for information retrieval. We focus on the DiffPost (Lee et al. 2008) approach to noise remo...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2010
IEEE
— This paper presents a solution to decentralized Voronoi coverage in non-convex polygonal environments. We show that complications arise when existing approaches to Voronoi cove...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2010
IEEE
— In this note, we present initial results towards developing a distributed algorithm for repairing topological holes in the sensor cover of a mobile robot team. Central to our a...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2010
IEEE
— This paper addresses a novel visibility-based pursuit-evasion problem in which a team of searchers with limited range sensors must coordinate to clear any evaders from an unkno...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2010
IEEE
We present an efficient algorithm for solving the ray-shooting problem on high dimensional sets. Our algorithm computes the intersection of the boundary of a compact convex set w...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2010
IEEE
Suppose we want to move a passive object along a given path, among obstacles in the plane, by pushing it with an active robot. We present two algorithms to compute a push plan for...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2010
IEEE
— Teaching a robot to learn new knowledge is a repetitive and tedious process. In order to accelerate the process, we propose a novel template-based approach for robot arm moveme...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2010
IEEE
— Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms have long been promising methods for enabling an autonomous robot to improve its behavior on sequential decision-making tasks. The obviou...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2010
IEEE
— We consider a navigation problem for a robot equipped with only a map, compass, and contact sensor. In addition to the limitations placed on sensing, we assume that there exist...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2010
IEEE
— We present a new retraction algorithm for high DOF articulated models and use our algorithm to improve the performance of RRT planners in narrow passages. The retraction step i...