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ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Search-based planning for a legged robot over rough terrain
Paul Vernaza, Maxim Likhachev, Subhrajit Bhattacha...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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On achievable accuracy for pose tracking
Abstract—This paper presents Cramér-Rao bound-like inequalities for pose tracking, which is defined as the problem of recovering the robot displacement given two successive rea...
Andrea Censi
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Milligram-scale high-voltage power electronics for piezoelectric microrobots
— Piezoelectric actuators can achieve high efficiency and power density in very small geometries, which shows promise for microrobotic applications, such as flapping-wing robot...
Michael Karpelson, Gu-Yeon Wei, Robert J. Wood
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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HSM3D: Feature-less global 6DOF scan-matching in the Hough/Radon domain
—This paper presents HSM3D, an algorithm for global rigid 6DOF alignment of 3D point clouds. The algorithm works by projecting the two input sets into the Radon/Hough domain, who...
Andrea Censi, Stefano Carpin
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Monte Carlo simultaneous localization of multiple unknown transient radio sources using a mobile robot with a directional antenn
— We report our system and algorithm developments that enable a single mobile robot equipped with a directional antenna to simultaneously localize multiple unknown transient radi...
Dezhen Song, Chang-Young Kim, Jingang Yi
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Deformation modeling of belt object with angles
Abstract— A differential geometry based modeling to represent belt object deformation is proposed. Deformation of a belt object such as film circuit boards or flexible circuit ...
Hidefumi Wakamatsu, Eiji Morinaga, Eiji Arai, Shin...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Revisiting uncertainty analysis for optimum planes extracted from 3D range sensor point-clouds
—In this work, we utilize a recently studied more accurate range noise model for 3D sensors to derive from scratch the expressions for the optimum plane which best fits a point-...
Kaustubh Pathak, Narunas Vaskevicius, Andreas Birk...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Survivability: Measuring and ensuring path diversity
— A novel criterion is introduced for assessing the diversity of a collection of paths or trajectories. The main idea is the notion of survivability, which measures the likelihoo...
Lawrence H. Erickson, Steven M. LaValle
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Randomized model predictive control for robot navigation
— We suggest a new navigation approach to mobile robots, within a nonlinear model predictive control framework where a navigation function is used as a control Lyapunov function....
Jorge L. Piovesan, Herbert G. Tanner
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Ad-hoc wireless network coverage with networked robots that cannot localize
— We study a fully distributed, reactive algorithm for deployment and maintenance of a mobile communication backbone that provides an area around a network gateway with wireless ...
Nikolaus Correll, Jonathan Bachrach, Daniel Vicker...