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ICRA
1999
IEEE
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Gesture-Based Programming: A Preliminary Demonstration
This paper explores Gesture-Based Programming as a paradigm for programming robotic agents. Gesture-Based Programming is a form of programming by human demonstration that focuses ...
Richard M. Voyles, Pradeep K. Khosla
ICRA
1999
IEEE
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Real Time Position Estimation for Mobile Robots by Means of Sonar Sensors
This paper presents a fast localisation algorithm for autonomous mobile agents in dynamic environments based on the definition of a new very small sized landmark type. These landm...
Cristina Urdiales, Antonio Bandera, R. Ron, Franci...
ICRA
1999
IEEE
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Deformation Modeling of Viscoelastic Objects for Their Shape Control
Shinichi Tokumoto, Yoshiaki Fujita, Shinichi Hirai
ICRA
1999
IEEE
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MINERVA: A Second-Generation Museum Tour-Guide Robot
This paper describes an interactive tour-guide robot, which was successfully exhibited in a Smithsonian museum. During its two weeks of operation, the robot interacted with more t...
Sebastian Thrun, Maren Bennewitz, Wolfram Burgard,...
ICRA
1999
IEEE
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Development of "MEL HORSE"
Development of Quadruped Robot which has a high mobility performance provides a significant challenge to the robotics engineer. MEL HORSE II is aimed to be such an experimental ro...
Hiroki Takeuchi
ICRA
1999
IEEE
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Transfer of Human Control Strategy Based on Similarity Measure
Jingyan Song, Yangsheng Xu, Michael C. Nechyba, Ye...
ICRA
1999
IEEE
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Computing Parallel-Jaw Grips
In this paper we propose a new model for gripping parts with an industrial parallel-jaw gripper. In contrast to many previous models, we use two grip points and define candidate g...
Gordon Smith, Eric Lee, Kenneth Y. Goldberg, Karl-...
ICRA
1999
IEEE
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Clustering of Qualitative Contact States for a Transmission Assembly
Current manufacturing methods for robotic-controlled assembly rely on accurate positioning to ensure task completion, often through the use of special xtures and precise calibrati...
Marjorie Skubic, Benjamin Forrester, Brent Nowak
ICRA
1999
IEEE
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Learning Visual Landmarks for Pose Estimation
Abstract-- We present an approach to vision-based mobile robot localization, even without an a-priori pose estimate. This is accomplished by learning a set of visual features calle...
Robert Sim, Gregory Dudek
ICRA
1999
IEEE
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Design of a Spider-Like Robot for Motion with Quasistatic Force Constraints
Abstract: This paper presents a novel design of a Jiegged "spider" robot capable of moving in a wide range of two-dimensional tunnels. The spider moves in a quasistatic m...
Shraga Shoval, Elon Rimon, Amir Shapiro