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IROS
2006
IEEE
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Optimal Direction of Grasped Object Minimizing Contact Forces
Abstract— When grasping an object, friction forces are sometimes utilized. Because of this friction forces, the object is manipulable to various direction. In this paper, we disc...
Satoshi Ito, Yuuki Mizukoshi, Koji Ishihara, Minor...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Rendering a Rigid Virtual World through an Impulsive Haptic Interface
— This paper deals with the haptic rendering of collisions between a human operator and rigid objects in a virtual environment. The focus being on high-velocity impacts on a rigi...
Emmanuel B. Vander Poorten, Yasuyoshi Yokokohji
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Surface Recognition by Registering Data Curves from Touch
Model-based recognition of an object typically involves matching dense 3D range data. The computational cost is directly affected by the amount of data of which a transformation n...
Rinat Ibrayev, Yan-Bin Jia
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Using Hidden Markov Models to Generate Natural Humanoid Movement
— This paper proposes a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based approach to generate human-like movements for humanoid robots. Given human motion capture data for a class of movements, p...
Junghyun Kwon, Frank C. Park
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Layered HMM for Motion Intention Recognition
— We evaluate Layered Hidden Markov Models (LHMM) for motion intention recognition based on actionprimitives or gestemes. The proposed methodology uses three different HMM models...
Daniel Aarno, Danica Kragic
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Waalbot: An Agile Small-Scale Wall Climbing Robot Utilizing Pressure Sensitive Adhesives
Abstract— This paper proposes a small-scale agile wall climbing robot able to navigate on smooth surfaces of any orientation, including vertical and inverted surfaces, which uses...
Michael P. Murphy, William Tso, Michael Tanzini, M...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Path Planning for Mobile Robot Navigation using Voronoi Diagram and Fast Marching
— This paper presents a new sensor based global Path Planner which operates in two steps. In the first step the safest areas in the environment are extracted by means of a Voron...
Santiago Garrido, Luis Moreno, Mohamed Abderrahim,...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Control of a Nonholonomic Mobile Robot Via Sensor-based Target Tracking and Pose Estimation
— The paper addresses the problem of controlling the posture of a nonholonomic mobile robot via sensor-based target tracking. The control technique here considered is adapted fro...
M. Maya-Mendez, Pascal Morin, Claude Samson
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Vibration-based Terrain Classification Using Support Vector Machines
Christian Weiss, Holger Fröhlich, Andreas Zel...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Theoretical Results on On-line Sensor Self-Calibration
— In this paper we derive theoretical results for the problem of on-line sensor calibration for a mobile robot. We consider the case of the odometry sensor. A first series of re...
Agostino Martinelli, Jan W. Weingarten, Roland Sie...