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ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Equipping robot control programs with first-order probabilistic reasoning capabilities
— An autonomous robot system that is to act in a real-world environment is faced with the problem of having to deal with a high degree of both complexity as well as uncertainty. ...
Dominik Jain, Lorenz Mösenlechner, Michael Be...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Inverse kinematics with closed form solutions for highly redundant robotic systems
— This paper presents inverse position kinematics algorithms with real time capability for Justin, a robotic system with high redundancy and many degrees of freedom. The combinat...
Rainer Konietschke, Gerd Hirzinger
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Controller decomposition and combination design of body / motion elements based on orbit attractor
Abstract— Robot control systems consist of a feedback controller and reference motion pattern. They are designed based on the robot dynamics and coupled with each other, and it r...
Masafumi Okada, Masaaki Watanabe
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Safe fall: Humanoid robot fall direction change through intelligent stepping and inertia shaping
—Although fall is a rare event in the life of a humanoid robot, we must be prepared for it because its consequences are serious. In this paper we present a fall strategy which ra...
Seung-kook Yun, Ambarish Goswami, Yoshiaki Sakagam...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Modeling and control of the monopedal robot Thumper
— A hybrid controller that induces stable running gaits on a monopedal robot is developed. The robot features a rigid leg with a revolute knee and a heavy torso with center of ma...
Ioannis Poulakakis, Jessy W. Grizzle
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Minimalistic control of a compass gait robot in rough terrain
— Although there has been an increasing interest in dynamic bipedal locomotion for significant improvement of energy efficiency and dexterity of mobile robots in the real world...
Fumiya Iida, Russ Tedrake
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Active guidance of a handheld micromanipulator using visual servoing
²In microsurgery, a surgeon often deals with anatomical structures of sizes that are close to the limit of the human hand accuracy. Robotic assistants can help to push beyond the ...
Brian C. Becker, Sandrine Voros, Robert A. MacLach...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Most salient region tracking
— In this paper, we introduce a cognitive approach for object tracking from a mobile platform. The approach is based on a biologically motivated attention system which is able to...
Simone Frintrop, Markus Kessel
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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The DLR MiroSurge - A robotic system for surgery
— This video presents the in-house developed DLR MiroSurge robotic system for surgery. As shown, the system is suitable for both minimally invasive and open surgery. Essential pa...
Rainer Konietschke, Ulrich Hagn, Mathias Nickl, St...