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ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Crawling by body deformation of tensegrity structure robots
Abstract— In this paper, we describe the design of a deformable robot with a tensegrity structure that can crawl and we show the results of experiments showing the ability of the...
Mizuho Shibata, Fumio Saijyo, Shinichi Hirai
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Generic nonlinear model of reduced scale UAVs
— This paper proposes, through a survey of models of several UAV-Structures, a generic nonlinear model for reduced scale aerial robotic vehicles (6 DOF)1 . Dynamics of an aircraf...
Thibault Cheviron, Abdelhamid Chriette, Franck Ple...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Synchronous EEG brain-actuated wheelchair with automated navigation
Abstract— This paper describes a new non-invasive brainactuated wheelchair that relies on a P300 neurophysiological protocol and automated navigation. In operation, the subject f...
Iñaki Iturrate, Javier M. Antelis, Javier M...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Design and implementation of a 9-axis inertial measurement unit
— We report on a 9-axis inertial measurement unit (IMU) which utilizes 3-axis angular velocity measurements from rate gyros and 6-axis linear acceleration measurements from three...
Pei-Chun Lin, Chi-Wei Ho
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Path following for an omnidirectional mobile robot based on model predictive control
— In this paper, the path following problem of an omnidirectional mobile robot has been studied. Given the error dynamic model derived from the robot state vector and the path st...
Kiattisin Kanjanawanishkul, Andreas Zell
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Relative bearing estimation from commodity radios
— Relative bearing between robots is important in applications like pursuit-evasion [11] and SLAM [7]. This is also true in in sensor networks, where the bearing of one sensor no...
Karthik Dantu, Prakhar Goyal, Gaurav S. Sukhatme
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Inferring a probability distribution function for the pose of a sensor network using a mobile robot
— In this paper we present an approach for localizing a sensor network augmented with a mobile robot which is capable of providing inter-sensor pose estimates through its odometr...
David Meger, Dimitri Marinakis, Ioannis M. Rekleit...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Towards a navigation system for autonomous indoor flying
— Recently there has been increasing research on the development of autonomous flying vehicles. Whereas most of the proposed approaches are suitable for outdoor operation, only ...
Slawomir Grzonka, Giorgio Grisetti, Wolfram Burgar...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Model adaptation with least-squares SVM for adaptive hand prosthetics
— The state-of-the-art in control of hand prosthetics is far from optimal. The main control interface is represented by surface electromyography (EMG): the activation potentials ...
Francesco Orabona, Claudio Castellini, Barbara Cap...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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On connectivity maintenance in linear cyclic pursuit
— The paper studies the cyclic pursuit problem in presence of connectivity constraints among single-integrator agents. The robots, each one pursuing its leading neighbor along th...
Fabio Morbidi, Giulio Ripaccioli, Domenico Prattic...