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ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Instrumenting Wireless Sensor Networks for Real-time Surveillance
— This paper considers the problem of tracking an unknown number of targets using a wireless sensor network for surveillance. In particular, we consider the case in which each se...
Songhwai Oh, Phoebus Chen, Michael Manzo, Shankar ...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Bi-modal Search using Complementary Sensing (Olfaction/Vision) for Odour Source Localisation
Gideon Kowadlo, David Rawlinson, R. Andrew Russell...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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A Vision-based Nonlinear Decentralized Controller for Unmanned Vehicles
— This paper presents a vision-based control strategy for decentralized stabilization of unmanned vehicle (UV) formations. The key point of the algorithm is that it only requires...
Omar A. A. Orqueda, Rafael B. Fierro
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Actuation Compensation for Flexible Surgical Snake-like Robots with Redundant Remote Actuation
– This paper presents two actuation compensation methods for a snake-like robot implementing multi flexible backbones and actuation redundancy. This snake-like robot is designed ...
Kai Xu 0005, Nabil Simaan
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Bearing-only Landmark Initialization by using SUF with Undistorted SIFT Features
— In this paper, we present a delayed algorithm for landmark initialization based on a Scaled Unscented Filter. The algorithm efficiently gives well-conditioned feature location...
Xiang Wang, Hong Zhang
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Bringing Robotics closer to Students - a Threefold Approach
— In this paper, we present our threefold concept of ”bringing robotics closer to students”. Our efforts begin with motivating high-school students to study engineering scien...
Niko Sünderhauf, Thomas Krause 0002, Peter Pr...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Software Components and Frameworks for Medical Robot Control
— Robots are increasingly being used in Computer Integrated Surgery (CIS) systems, yet to our knowledge, there is no open source software that is specifically targeted at this a...
Ankur Kapoor, Anton Deguet, Peter Kazanzides
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Extended EM for Planar Approximation of 3D Data
– The paper deals with fitting of planar patches to 3D laser range data obtained by a mobile robot. The number and the initial position of the patches are unknown, hence their es...
Rolf Lakämper, Longin Jan Latecki
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Autonomous Capture of a Tumbling Satellite
— In this paper, we describe a framework for the autonomous capture and servicing of satellites. The work is based on laboratory experiments that illustrate the autonomy and remo...
Guy Rouleau, Ioannis M. Rekleitis, Régent L...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Placement and Distributed Deployment of Sensor Teams for Triangulation based Localization
— We address the problem of placing a sensor network so as to minimize the uncertainty in estimating the position of targets. The novelty of our formulation is in the sensing mod...
Volkan Isler