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ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Dealing with laser scanner failure: Mirrors and windows
— This paper addresses the problem of laser scanner failure on mirrors and windows. Mirrors and glasses are quite common objects that appear in our daily lives. However, while la...
Shao-Wen Yang, Chieh-Chih Wang
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Fabrication of functional gel-microbead for local environment measurement in microchip
— A novel on-chip environment measurement with functional gel-microtool was developed. Environment measurement gel-microtool was fabricated by connecting the gel-microbeads impre...
Hisataka Maruyama, Fumihito Arai, Toshio Fukuda
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Duration prediction for proactive replanning
— Proactive replanning attempts to predict scheduling problems or opportunities and adapt to them throughout a schedule’s execution. By continuously predicting a task’s remai...
Brennan Sellner, Reid G. Simmons
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Analysis and improvement of the consistency of extended Kalman filter based SLAM
Abstract— In this work, we study the inconsistency of EKFbased SLAM from the perspective of observability. We analytically prove that when the Jacobians of the state and measurem...
Guoquan Huang, Anastasios I. Mourikis, Stergios I....
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Stabilization algorithm for a high speed car-like robot achieving steering maneuver
— This paper deals with design and implementation of a stabilization algorithm for a car like robot performing high speed turns. The control of such a kind of system is rather di...
Eric Lucet, Christophe Grand, Damien Sallé,...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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A Bayesian approach to empirical local linearization for robotics
— Local linearizations are ubiquitous in the control of robotic systems. Analytical methods, if available, can be used to obtain the linearization, but in complex robotics system...
Jo-Anne Ting, Aaron D'Souza, Sethu Vijayakumar, St...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Vibration-based terrain classification using surface profile input frequency responses
—Terrain variations can greatly influence autonomous ground vehicle (AGV) performance. However, if the terrain is properly identified, the AGV control systems can be adjusted to ...
Emmanuel G. Collins Jr., Eric Joe Coyle
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Cooperative anchoring in heterogeneous multi-robot systems
Abstract— Highly heterogeneous robotic systems are becoming increasingly common, as are robotic systems integrated with smart environments. In such distributed systems, there are...
Kevin LeBlanc, Alessandro Saffiotti
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Iterated filters for bearing-only SLAM
— This paper discusses the importance of iteration when performing the measurement update step for the problem of bearing-only SLAM. We focus on an undelayed approach that initia...
Stephen Tully, Hyungpil Moon, George Kantor, Howie...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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More accurate camera and hand-eye calibrations with unknown grid pattern dimensions
Abstract— This paper presents two novel approaches for accurate intrinsic and extrinsic camera calibration. The rationale behind them is the widespread violation of the tradition...
Klaus H. Strobl, Gerd Hirzinger