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ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Design of a Free Piston Pneumatic Compressor as a Mobile Robot Power Supply
– The design of a free piston compressor (FPC) intended as a pneumatic power supply for pneumatically actuated autonomous robots is presented in this paper. The FPC is a proposed...
Jose Riofrio, Eric J. Barth
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Metric-Based Scan Matching Algorithms for Mobile Robot Displacement Estimation
— This paper presents a metric-based matching algorithm to estimate the robot planar displacement by matching dense two-dimensional range scans. The contribution is a geometric d...
Javier Minguez, Florent Lamiraux, Luis Montesano
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Time Series Action Support by Mobile Robot in Intelligent Environment
— Recent development of information technology is making electric household appliances computerized and networked. If the environments surrounding us could recognize our activiti...
Tsukasa Fukuda, Yasushi Nakauchi, Katsunori Noguch...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Synthesis of Controllers for Stylized Planar Bipedal Walking
— We present a method for computing controllers for stable planar-biped walking gaits that follow a particular style. The desired style is specified with a kinematic target traj...
Dana Sharon, Michiel van de Panne
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Local Minimum of Elastic Potential Energy on Hemispherical Soft Fingertip
— This paper proposes a new contact deformation model between a hemispherical soft fingertip and an object. First, we develop our proposed contact model, in which an elastic pot...
Takahiro Inoue, Shinichi Hirai
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Planning 3-D Path Networks in Unstructured Environments
Abstract— In this paper, we explore the problem of threedimensional motion planning in highly cluttered and unstructured outdoor environments. Because accurate sensing and modeli...
Nicolas Vandapel, James Kuffner, Omead Amidi
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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A Criterion for the PassivitY of Haptic Devices
— Rendering a stiff virtual wall remains a core challenge in the field of haptics. A passivity study of this problem is presented, which relates the maximum achievable wall stif...
Nicola Diolaiti, Günter Niemeyer, Federico Ba...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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A Real-Time Haptic/Graphic Demonstration of how Error Augmentation can Enhance Learning
– We developed a real-time controller for a 2 degree-of-freedom robotic system using xPC Target. This system was used to investigate how different methods of performance error fe...
Yejun Wei, James L. Patton, Preeti Bajaj, Robert S...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Adaptive Virtual Fixtures for Machine-Assisted Teleoperation Tasks
— It has been demonstrated in a number of robotic areas how the use of virtual fixtures improves task performance both in terms of execution time and overall precision, [1]. How...
Daniel Aarno, Staffan Ekvall, Danica Kragic
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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3-D Measurement of Objects in Unknown Aquatic Environments with a Laser Range Finder
Abstract— In this paper, we propose a three-dimensional (3D) measurement method of objects in aquatic environments whose refractive indices or boundary shape of the refraction ar...
Atsushi Yamashita, Shinsuke Ikeda, Toru Kaneko