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ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Force estimation in a piezoelectric cantilever using the inverse-dynamics-based UIO technique
— This paper presents the estimation of the force applied by a piezocantilever dedicated to micromanipulation/microassembly. Relative to previous works, the presented method avoi...
Micky Rakotondrabe, Philippe Lutz
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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A framework for modeling steady turning of robotic fish
— In this paper we present a novel framework for computing the steady turning motion of a robotic fish undergoing periodic body and/or tail deformation. Taking the turning radiu...
Qingsong Hu, Dawn R. Hedgepeth, Lihong Xu, Xiaobo ...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Finding the optimal strategies for robotic patrolling with adversaries in topologically-represented environments
Abstract— Using autonomous mobile robots to patrol environments for detecting intruders is a topic of increasing relevance for its possible applications. A large part of strategi...
Francesco Amigoni, Nicola Basilico, Nicola Gatti
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Graph-based planning using local information for unknown outdoor environments
— One of the common applications for outdoor robots is to follow a path in large scale unknown environments. This task is challenging due to the intensive memory requirements to ...
Jinhan Lee, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Charles Pippin, Tuck...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Navigation through urban environments by visual perception and interaction
— In the Autonomous City Explorer (ACE) project a mobile robot is developed, which is capable of finding its way to a given destination in an unknown urban environment. An exemp...
Quirin Mühlbauer, Stefan Sosnowski, Tingting ...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Task-space trajectories via cubic spline optimization
Abstract— We consider the task of planning smooth trajectories for robot motion. In this paper we make two contributions. First we present a method for cubic spline optimization;...
J. Zico Kolter, Andrew Y. Ng
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Oriented bounding surfaces with at most six common normals
— We present a new type of oriented bounding surfaces, which is particularly well suited for shortest distance computations. The bounding surfaces are obtained by considering sur...
Margot Rabl, Laureano González-Vega, Bert J...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Singularity avoidance for over-actuated, pseudo-omnidirectional, wheeled mobile robots
— For mobile platforms with steerable standard wheels it is necessary to precisely coordinate rotation and steering angle of their wheels. An established approach to ensure this ...
Christian Pascal Connette, Christopher Parlitz, Ma...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Natural self motion of a robotic limb with single degree-of-redundancy
— The self motion of a kinematically redundant robotic limb with single degree of redundancy is analyzed, focusing thereby on the nonlinear self-motion component. The role of thi...
Yoshikazu Kanamiya