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ICRA
2009
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Active multi-view object search on a humanoid head
Visual search is a common daily human activity and a prerequisite to the interaction with objects encountered in cluttered environments. Humanoid robots that are supposed to take p...
Kai Welke, Tamim Asfour, Rüdiger Dillmann
AROBOTS
2010
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13 years 11 months ago
Pivoting based manipulation by a humanoid robot
Abstract In this paper we address whole-body manipulation of bulky objects by a humanoid robot. We adopt a "pivoting" manipulation method that allows the humanoid to disp...
Eiichi Yoshida, Mathieu Poirier, Jean-Paul Laumond...
EXPERT
2000
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14 years 12 days ago
Humanoid Robots: A New Kind of Tool
In 1993 our group at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory began a humanoid robotics project aimed at constructing a robot for use in exploring theories of human intelligence...
Bryan Adams, Cynthia Breazeal, Rodney A. Brooks, B...
RAS
2006
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14 years 15 days ago
Visuo-motor learning for face-to-face pass between heterogeneous humanoids
Humanoid behavior generation is one of the most formidable issues due to its complicated structure with many degrees of freedom. This paper proposes a controller for a humanoid to...
Masaki Ogino, Masaaki Kikuchi, Minoru Asada
IJHR
2008
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14 years 18 days ago
The Challenge of Motion Planning for Soccer Playing Humanoid Robots
Motion planning for humanoids faces several challenging issues: high dimensionality of the configuration space, necessity to address balance constraints in single and double suppo...
Stefano Carpin, Marcelo Kallmann, Enrico Pagello
INTERACT
2003
14 years 1 months ago
Human and Humanoid Don't Match: Consistency Preference and Impact on Users' Trust
Abstract: For many anthropomorphic representations on computer interfaces, there are choices of using mediacaptured human components and using computer-synthesized humanoid counter...
Li Gong
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
Double spherical joint and backlash clutch for lower limbs of humanoids
In this paper, we develop tw o mechanisms for improving humanoid robot motions. The double spherical joint is a six DOF mechanism whose axes intersect in one point. This mechanism...
Masafumi Okada, Tetsuya Shinohara, Tatsuya Gotoh, ...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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14 years 6 months ago
Real-time 3D SLAM for Humanoid Robot considering Pattern Generator Information
Abstract— Humanoid robotics and SLAM (Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping) are certainly two of the most significant themes of the current worldwide robotics research effort, ...
Olivier Stasse, Andrew J. Davison, Ramzi Sellaouti...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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14 years 7 months ago
Reaction Mass Pendulum (RMP): An explicit model for centroidal angular momentum of humanoid robots
Abstract— A number of conceptually simple but behaviorrich “inverted pendulum” humanoid models have greatly enhanced the understanding and analytical insight of humanoid dyna...
Sung-Hee Lee, Ambarish Goswami
IROS
2008
IEEE
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14 years 7 months ago
Dynamic acyclic motion from a planar contact-stance to another
— This paper addresses the problem of generating dynamic motion for a humanoid between two predefined postures. The humanoid robot starts its motion from a statically stable con...
Mario Arbulu, Kazuhito Yokoi, Abderrahmane Kheddar...