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RAS
2008
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13 years 12 months ago
Towards long-lived robot genes
Robot projects are often evolutionary dead ends, with the software and hardware they produce disappearing without trace afterwards. Common causes include dependencies on uncommon ...
Paul M. Fitzpatrick, Giorgio Metta, Lorenzo Natale
EXPERT
2000
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14 years 7 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...
ISRR
2001
Springer
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14 years 4 months ago
OpenHRP: Open Architecture Humanoid Robotics Platform
This paper introduces an open architecture humanoid robotics platform (OpenHRP for short) on which various building blocks of humanoid robotics can be investigated. OpenHRP is a v...
Hirohisa Hirukawa, Fumio Kanehiro, Shuuji Kajita
ICRA
2002
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
Design of Advanced Leg Module for Humanoid Robotics Project of METI
This paper presents an advanced leg module developed for HRP-2. HRP-2 is a new humanoid robotics platform, which we have been developing in phase two of HRP. HRP is a humanoid rob...
Kenji Kaneko, Shuuji Kajita, Fumio Kanehiro, Kazuh...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
Open Architecture Humanoid Robotics Platform
This paper introduces an open architecture humanoid robotics platform (OpenHRP for short) on which various building blocks of humanoid robotics can be investigated. OpenHRP is a v...
Fumio Kanehiro, Kiyoshi Fujiwara, Shuuji Kajita, K...
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...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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14 years 6 months ago
Fast and Stable Learning of Quasi-Passive Dynamic Walking by an Unstable Biped Robot based on Off-Policy Natural Actor-Critic
— Recently, many researchers on humanoid robotics are interested in Quasi-Passive-Dynamic Walking (Quasi-PDW) which is similar to human walking. It is desirable that control para...
Tsuyoshi Ueno, Yutaka Nakamura, Takashi Takuma, To...