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ICRA
2007
IEEE
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A visual bag of words method for interactive qualitative localization and mapping
— Localization for low cost humanoid or animal-like personal robots has to rely on cheap sensors and has to be robust to user manipulations of the robot. We present a visual loca...
David Filliat
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Reality-Based Haptic Force Models of Buttons and Switches
—Accurate models of the feel of physical objects are essential to improving the realism of haptic simulations. This paper presents a method for automatically obtaining experiment...
Mark B. Colton, John M. Hollerbach
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Adaptive Play Q-Learning with Initial Heuristic Approximation
Abstract— The problem of an effective coordination of multiple autonomous robots is one of the most important tasks of the modern robotics. In turn, it is well known that the lea...
Andriy Burkov, Brahim Chaib-draa
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Visual Servoing of an Airplane for Alignment with respect to a Runway
— In this paper, we propose a visual servoing scheme to align an airplane with respect to a runway. A linearized model of the airplane dynamics and decoupled visual features are ...
Odile Bourquardez, François Chaumette
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Semantic Knowledge-Based Execution Monitoring for Mobile Robots
Abstract— We describe a novel intelligent execution monitoring approach for mobile robots acting in indoor environments such as offices and houses. Traditionally, monitoring exe...
Abdelbaki Bouguerra, Lars Karlsson, Alessandro Saf...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Navigation using an appearance based topological map
Abstract— Vision systems are used more and more in ’personal’ robots interacting with humans, since semantic information about objects and places can be derived from the rich...
Olaf Booij, Bas Terwijn, Zoran Zivkovic, Ben J. A....
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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A 1.5g SMA-actuated Microglider looking for the Light
Mirko Kovac, André Guignard, Jean-Daniel Ni...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Incremental Spectral Clustering and Its Application To Topological Mapping
Abstract— This paper presents a novel use of spectral clustering algorithms to support cases where the entries in the affinity matrix are costly to compute. The method is increm...
Christoffer Valgren, Tom Duckett, Achim J. Lilient...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Force Redistribution in a Quadruped Running Trot
Abstract— In this paper, an attitude control strategy is developed for a high-speed quadruped trot. The forces in the trot are redistributed among the legs to stabilize the pitch...
Luther R. Palmer, David E. Orin