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ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Loosely Coupled Joint Driven by SMA Coil Actuators
— We introduce a robotic prototype of an arm with a loosely coupled joint, modeled on the human joint. A viscoelastic object functions as cartilage and soft actuators as muscles....
Mizuho Shibata, Takahiro Yoshimura, Shinichi Hirai
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Design and Development of the Long-Jumping "Grillo" Mini Robot
Abstract— This paper describes the design of a fast longjumping robot conceived to move in unstructured environments through simple feed-forward control laws. Despite the apparen...
Umberto Scarfogliero, Cesare Stefanini, Paolo Dari...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Inertial Aiding of Inverse Depth SLAM using a Monocular Camera
— This paper presents the benefits of using a low cost inertial measurement unit to aid in an implementation of inverse depth initialized SLAM using a hand-held monocular camera...
Pedro Pinies, Todd Lupton, Salah Sukkarieh, Juan D...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Combined Trajectory Planning and Gaze Direction Control for Robotic Exploration
— In this paper, a control scheme that combines trajectory planning and gaze direction control for robotic exploration is presented. The objective is to calculate the gaze direct...
Georgios Lidoris, Kolja Kühnlenz, Dirk Wollhe...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Calibration of an EMG-Based Body Model with six Muscles to control a Leg Exoskeleton
— This paper presents a body model of intermediate level of detail to allow prediction of the knee torque produced by thigh muscles based on EMG signals. This torque prediction i...
Christian Fleischer, Günter Hommel
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Mobile Sensor Networks Self Localization based on Multi-dimensional Scaling
— In this paper, we define a mobile self-localization (MSL) problem for sparse mobile sensor networks, and propose an algorithm named Mobility Assisted MDS-MAP(P), based on Mult...
Changhua Wu, Weihua Sheng, Ying Zhang
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Mechanical design of a new pneumatically driven underactuated hand
—This paper presents a new pneumatically driven underactuated hand with two fingers and 3 phalanxes per finger. Two evidences have led the design of this hand. Firstly, the use o...
Vincent Begoc, Sébastien Krut, Etienne Domb...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Visual Servoing on Non-Planar Objects From Active Vision
— This paper presents a method to achieve visual servoing tasks when the shape of the object being observed as well as the final image are unknown. Therefore, a reconstruction p...
Christophe Collewet, François Chaumette