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2005
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Dynamic turning control of a quadruped locomotion robot using oscillators
The authors have proposed a dynamic turning control system of a quadruped robot by using nonlinear oscillators. It is composed of a spontaneous locomotion controller and voluntary...
Katsuyoshi Tsujita, Hiroomi Toui, Kazuo Tsuchiya
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2005
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Design and control of a mobile hyper-redundant urban search and rescue robot
Alon Wolf, Howie Choset, Benjamin H. Brown, Randal...
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2005
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Design of a low-cost, highly mobile urban search and rescue robot
Bradley E. Bishop, Frederick L. Crabbe, Bryan M. H...
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2005
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Towards grasping in unstructured environments: grasper compliance and configuration optimization
This paper examines the role of grasper compliance and kinematic configuration in environments where object size and location may not be well known. A grasper consisting of a pair ...
Aaron M. Dollar, Robert D. Howe
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2005
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Efficient model-based tracking for robot vision
This paper proposes a real-time, robust and efficient three-dimensional (3D) model-based tracking algorithm. A virtual visual servoing approach is used for monocular 3D tracking. T...
Andrew I. Comport, Éric Marchand, Fran&cced...
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2005
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Insights toward robot-assisted evacuation
This paper discusses the application of robotic technologies to an evacuation assistance task. We describe how this kind of task differs from the more prevalent search and rescue ...
Dylan A. Shell, Maja J. Mataric
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2005
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Active compliant motion: a survey
Whether they are asked to polish or assemble parts, clean the house or open doors, the future generation of robots will have to cope with contact tasks under uncertainty in a stabl...
Tine Lefebvre, Jing Xiao, Herman Bruyninckx, Gudru...
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2005
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Distinguishability and identifiability testing of contact state models
An important component of compliant motion control is the estimation of contact states during task execution. This paper addresses two fundamental questions that must be answered w...
Thomas Debus, Pierre E. Dupont, Robert D. Howe
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2005
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Cooperative behavior based on a subjective map with shared information in a dynamic environment
This paper proposes a subjective map representation that enables a robot in a multiagent system to make decisions in a dynamic, hostile environment. A typical situation can be fou...
Noriaki Mitsunaga, Taku Izumi, Minoru Asada
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2005
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On actively closing loops in grid-based FastSLAM
Acquiring models of the environment belongs to the fundamental tasks of mobile robots. In the past, several researchers have focused on the problem of simultaneous localization an...
Cyrill Stachniss, Dirk Hähnel, Wolfram Burgar...