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ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Tissue property estimation and graphical display for teleoperated robot-assisted surgery
— Palpation of tissue and organs during a surgical procedure provides clinicians with valuable information for diagnosis and surgical planning. In robot-assisted minimally invasi...
Tomonori Yamamoto, Balázs Vágvö...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Constructing action set from basis functions for reinforcement learning of robot control
Abstract— Continuous action sets are used in many reinforcement learning (RL) applications in robot control since the control input is continuous. However, discrete action sets a...
Akihiko Yamaguchi, Jun Takamatsu, Tsukasa Ogasawar...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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From pixels to objects: Enabling a spatial model for humanoid social robots
— This work adds the concept of object to an existent low-level attention system of the humanoid robot iCub. The objects are defined as clusters of SIFT visual features. When th...
Dario Figueira, Manuel Lopes, Rodrigo M. M. Ventur...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Multiple-model RANSAC for ego-motion estimation in highly dynamic environments
Abstract— Robust ego-motion estimation in urban environments is a key prerequisite for making a robot truly autonomous, but is not easily achievable as there are two motions invo...
Shao-Wen Yang, Chieh-Chih Wang
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Smoothed Sarsa: Reinforcement learning for robot delivery tasks
— Our goal in this work is to make high level decisions for mobile robots. In particular, given a queue of prioritized object delivery tasks, we wish to find a sequence of actio...
Deepak Ramachandran, Rakesh Gupta
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Markerless human motion tracking with a flexible model and appearance learning
— A new approach to the 3D human motion tracking problem is proposed, which combines several particle filters with a physical simulation of a flexible body model. The flexible...
Florian Hecht, Pedram Azad, Rüdiger Dillmann
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Decentralized localization for dynamic and sparse robot networks
Abstract— Finite-range sensing and communication are factors in the connectivity of a dynamic mobile robot network. State estimation becomes a difficult problem when communicati...
Keith Yu Kit Leung, Timothy D. Barfoot, Hugh H. T....
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Moving obstacle detection in highly dynamic scenes
Abstract— We address the problem of vision-based multiperson tracking in busy pedestrian zones using a stereo rig mounted on a mobile platform. Specifically, we are interested i...
Andreas Ess, Bastian Leibe, Konrad Schindler, Luc ...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Learning and generalization of motor skills by learning from demonstration
— We provide a general approach for learning robotic motor skills from human demonstration. To represent an observed movement, a non-linear differential equation is learned such ...
Peter Pastor, Heiko Hoffmann, Tamim Asfour, Stefan...