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ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Design of a 5-cm Monopod Hopping Robot
The monopod hopper described here fits into a cube that is 5 cm on a side, is autonomous, and is designed to be statically and passively dynamically stable. Hopping is achieved th...
Terence E. Wei, Gabriel M. Nelson, Roger D. Quinn,...
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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A Physical Implementation of the Self-Reconfiguring Crystalline Robot
We discuss a physical implementation of the Crystalline robot system. Crystalline robots consist of modules that can aggregate together to form distributed robot systems. Crystall...
Daniela Rus, Marsette Vona
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Biomechanics and Simulation of Cricket for Microrobot Design
This paper describes the kinematic analysis of two different cricket locomotion modalities, and the use of these data in a dynamic simulation to combine and simplify the insect�...
Sathaporn Laksanacharoen, Alan J. Pollack, Gabriel...
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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RRT-Connect: An Efficient Approach to Single-Query Path Planning
A simple and efficient randomized algorithm is presented for solving single-query path planning problems in high-dimensional configuration spaces. The method works by incrementall...
James J. Kuffner Jr., Steven M. LaValle
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Feature Based Condensation for Mobile Robot Localization
Much attention has been given to CONDENSATION methods for mobile robot localization. This has resulted in somewhat of a breakthrough in representing uncertainty for mobile robots....
Patric Jensfelt, David J. Austin, Olle Wijk, Magnu...
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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The Anthropomorphic Biped Robot BIP2000
This paper describes the progress of the BIP2000 project. This project, in which four laboratories are involved for 4 years, as uimed at the realization of the lower part of an an...
Bernard Espiau, Philippe Sardain
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Identification and Decoupling Control of Flexure Jointed Hexapods
By exploiting properties of the joint space mass-inertia matrix of flexure jointed hexapods, a new decoupling method is proposed. The new decoupling method, through a static input...
Yixin Chen, John E. McInroy
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Design of a Cricket Microrobot
Our goal is to develop an autonomous robot that will fit within a two-inch cube and will locomote by walking and jumping. The robot will be based on the kinematics of a cricket. I...
Matthew C. Birch, Roger D. Quinn, Geon Hahm, Steph...
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Design, Experiments and Motion Planning of a Spherical Rolling Robot
This paper describes a prototype and analytical studies of a spherical rolling robot, a new design of a nonholonomic system. The spherical robot is driven by two remotely controll...
Shourov Bhattacharya, Sunil Kumar Agrawal
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Using Multiple Gaussian Hypotheses to Represent Probability Distributions for Mobile Robot Localization
A new mobile robot localization technique is presented which uses multiple Gaussian hypotheses to represent the probability distribution of the robots location in the environment....
David J. Austin, Patric Jensfelt