IJRR
2010
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2010
This paper presents a tactile transducer device that is optimized from biomechanical data and has a compact, yet modular design. The tactile transducer comprises a 6 × 10 piezo b...
IJRR
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
This paper presents a novel approach to detect and track pedestrians and cars based on the combined information retrieved from a camera and a laser range scanner. Laser data points...
IJRR
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
— Robotic systems that can create and use visual maps in realtime have obvious advantages in many applications, from automatic driving to mobile manipulation in the home. In this...
IJRR
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
This paper explores a topological perspective of planning in the presence of uncertainty, focusing on tasks specified by goal states in discrete spaces. The paper introduces stra...
IJRR
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
This paper considers grasps and fixtures whose contacts react according to force-displacement laws consistent with friction constrains at the contacts. The passive force closure s...
IJRR
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
IJRR
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
Robots consisting of several concentric, preshaped, elastic tubes can work dexterously in narrow, constrained, and/or winding spaces, as are commonly found in minimally invasive s...
IJRR
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) provide a principled, general framework for robot motion planning in uncertain and dynamic environments. They have been app...
IJRR
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
Path planning and trajectory design for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) is of great importance to the oceanographic research community because automated data collection is b...
IJRR
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
Abstract The problem of generating uniform deterministic samples over the rotation group, SO(3), is fundamental to many fields, such as computational structural biology, robotics,...