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ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Approximation of feasibility tests for reactive walk on HRP-2
— We present here an original approach to test the feasibility of footsteps for a given walking pattern generator. It is based on a new approximation algorithm intended to cope w...
Nicolas Perrin, Olivier Stasse, Florent Lamiraux, ...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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An Inertia-Based Surface Identification System
—In many robotics applications, knowing the material properties around a robot is often critical for the robot’s successful performance. For example, in mobility, knowledge abo...
Jens Windau, Wei-Min Shen
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Planning pre-grasp manipulation for transport tasks
— Studies of human manipulation strategies suggest that pre-grasp object manipulation, such as rotation or sliding of the object to be grasped, can improve task performance by in...
Lillian Y. Chang, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Nancy S...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Inferring the semantics of direction signs in public places
Abstract— Most large-scale public environments provide direction signs to facilitate the orientation for humans and to find their way to a goal location in the environment. Thus...
Jérôme Maye, Luciano Spinello, Rudolp...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Online navigation summaries
— Our objective is to find a small set of images that summarize a robot’s visual experience along a path. We present a novel on-line algorithm for this task. This algorithm is...
Yogesh Girdhar, Gregory Dudek
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Autonomous cruise control of circulating multi-robot for congestion
— This paper describes a methodology regarding an autonomous cruise control (ACC) of circulating multi-robot which is directly effective for solving the congestion regardless of ...
Satoshi Hoshino, Hiroya Seki, Yuji Naka, Jun Ota
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Understanding and executing instructions for everyday manipulation tasks from the World Wide Web
Service robots will have to accomplish more and more complex, open-ended tasks and regularly acquire new skills. In this work, we propose a new approach to generating plans for su...
Moritz Tenorth, Daniel Nyga, Michael Beetz
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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A fast and frugal method for team-task allocation in a multi-robot transportation system
Abstract— In this paper we present two task-allocation strategies for a multi-robot transportation system. The first strategy is based on a centralized planner that uses domain ...
Jens Wawerla, Richard T. Vaughan
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Indoor scene recognition through object detection
Abstract— Scene recognition is a highly valuable perceptual ability for an indoor mobile robot, however, current approaches for scene recognition present a significant drop in p...
Pablo Espinace, Thomas Kollar, Alvaro Soto, Nichol...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Feature detection and matching in images with radial distortion
— Image keypoints are broadly used in robotics for different purposes, ranging from recognition to 3D reconstruction, passing by SLAM and visual servoing. Robust keypoint matchin...
Miguel Lourenço, João P. Barreto, Ab...