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ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Wireless control of magnetic helical microrobots using a rotating-permanent-magnet manipulator
Abstract— Magnetic helical medical microrobots are promising for use in open fluid, lumen, and soft-tissue environments and will enable minimally invasive access to hard-to-reac...
Thomas W. R. Fountain, Prem V. Kailat, Jake J. Abb...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Modeling and decision making in spatio-temporal processes for environmental surveillance
Abstract— The need for efficient monitoring of spatiotemporal dynamics in large environmental surveillance applications motivates the use of robotic sensors to achieve sufficie...
Amarjeet Singh 0003, Fabio Ramos, Hugh D. Whyte, W...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Navigation and control of the Nereus hybrid underwater vehicle for global ocean science to 10, 903 m depth: Preliminary results
— This paper reports an overview of the navigation and control system design for the new Nereus hybrid underwater robotic vehicle (HROV). Vehicle performance during its first se...
Louis L. Whitcomb, Michael V. Jakuba, James C. Kin...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Cooperative tracking of moving objects and face detection with a dual camera sensor
— This paper describes a sensor for autonomous surveillance capable of continuously monitoring the environment, while acquiring detailed images of specific areas. This is achiev...
Stefano Ghidoni, Alberto Pretto, Emanuele Menegatt...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Statistical mobility prediction for planetary surface exploration rovers in uncertain terrain
— Planetary surface exploration rovers must accurately and efficiently predict their mobility on natural, rough terrain. Most approaches to mobility prediction assume precise a p...
Genya Ishigami, Gaurav Kewlani, Karl Iagnemma
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Simulation-based LQR-trees with input and state constraints
— We present an algorithm that probabilistically covers a bounded region of the state space of a nonlinear system with a sparse tree of feedback stabilized trajectories leading t...
Philipp Reist, Russ Tedrake
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Multi-tasking SLAM
— The problem of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is one of the most studied in the robotics literature. Most existing approaches, however, focus on scenarios where l...
Arthur Guez, Joelle Pineau
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Cloth grasp point detection based on multiple-view geometric cues with application to robotic towel folding
Abstract— We present a novel vision-based grasp point detection algorithm that can reliably detect the corners of a piece of cloth, using only geometric cues that are robust to v...
Jeremy Maitin-Shepard, Marco Cusumano-Towner, Jinn...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Movement templates for learning of hitting and batting
Abstract— Hitting and batting tasks, such as tennis forehands, ping-pong strokes, or baseball batting, depend on predictions where the ball can be intercepted and how it can prop...
Jens Kober, Katharina Mülling, Oliver Kroemer...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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A fast n-dimensional ray-shooting algorithm for grasping force optimization
We present an efficient algorithm for solving the ray-shooting problem on high dimensional sets. Our algorithm computes the intersection of the boundary of a compact convex set w...
Yu Zheng, Ming C. Lin, Dinesh Manocha