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ICRA
1998
IEEE
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VFH+: Reliable Obstacle Avoidance for Fast Mobile Robots
This paper presents further developments of the earlier Vector Field Histogram (VFH) method for realtime mobile robot obstacle avoidance. The enhanced method, called VFH+, offers ...
Iwan Ulrich, Johann Borenstein
ICRA
1998
IEEE
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Probabilistic Mapping of an Environment by a Mobile Robot
This paper addresses the problem of building large-scale maps of indoor environments with mobile robots. It proposes a statisticalapproach that phrases the map buildingproblem as ...
Sebastian Thrun, Dieter Fox, Wolfram Burgard
ICRA
1998
IEEE
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Design for Tolerance of Electro-Mechanical Assemblies
Tolerancing decisions can profoundly impact the quality and cost of electro-mechanical assemblies. Existing approaches to tolerance analysis and synthesis in design entail detailed...
Rachuri Sudarsan, Y. Narahari, Kevin W. Lyons, Ram...
ICRA
1998
IEEE
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Matrix Normalization for Optimal Robot Design
Good robot performance often relies upon the selection of design parameters that lead to a well conditioned Jacobian or impedance "design" matrix. In this paper, a new d...
Leo J. Stocco, S. E. Salcudean, F. Sassani
ICRA
1998
IEEE
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Real-Time Estimation of Dominant Motion in Underwater Video Images for Dynamic Positioning
In this paper, we propose a 2D visual motion estimation method which can be exploited to achieve a dynamic positioning (eg. by gaze control) with respect to a sea-bottom area of i...
Fabien Spindler, Patrick Bouthemy
ICRA
1998
IEEE
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Multi-Resolution Planning for Earthmoving
We suggest that planning for automated earthmoving operations such as digging a foundation or leveling a mound of soil, be treated at multiple levels. In a system that we have dev...
Sanjiv Singh, Howard Cannon
ICRA
1998
IEEE
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Selecting Targets for Local Reference Frames
This paper addresses the problem of seeking out parts of the environment that provide adequate features in order to perform robot localization. The objective is to choose good regi...
Saul Simhon, Gregory Dudek
ICRA
1998
IEEE
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Bilateral Matched Impedance Teleoperation with Application to Excavator Control
S. E. Salcudean, K. Hashtrudi-Zaad, S. Tafazoli, S...