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IROS
2006
IEEE
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Opportunistic Use of Vision to Push Back the Path-Planning Horizon
Abstract— Mobile robots need maps or other forms of geometric information about the environment to navigate. The mobility sensors (LADAR, stereo, etc.) on these robotic vehicles ...
Bart C. Nabbe, Derek Hoiem, Alexei A. Efros, Marti...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Control of facial expressions of the humanoid robot head ROMAN
— For humanoid robots which are able to assist humans in their daily life, the capability for adequate interaction with human operators is a key feature. If one considers that mo...
Karsten Berns, Jochen Hirth
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Unraveling of Deformable Linear Objects Based on 2D Information about Their Crossing States
— A planning method for unraveling deformable linear objects based on 2D information about their crossing states is proposed. In manipulation of a linear object, its raveling mus...
Hidefumi Wakamatsu, Akira Tsumaya, Eiji Arai, Shin...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Modeling Soft Contact Mechanism of Biological Cells Using an Atomic Force Bio-Microscope
— The development of a mechanical force sensing device system based on force/vision feedback control for exploring in vitro the contact mechanics of human adherent cervix Epithel...
Maxime Girot, Mehdi Boukallel, Stephane Rég...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Resource Management with RFID Technology in Automatic Warehouse System
— Warehouse operation has become a critical activity in supply chain to outperform competitors on customer service, lead times and costs. However, managers often meet difficulti...
Guidong Liu, Wensheng Yu, Yu Liu
IROS
2006
IEEE
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An Embedded Optical Flow Processor for Visual Navigation using Optical Correlator Technology
– The conceptual design of an embedded high performance opto-electronic optical flow processor is presented, which is designed for navigation applications in the field of robotic...
Valerij Tchernykh, Martin Beck, Klaus Janschek
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Fast and Stable Learning of Quasi-Passive Dynamic Walking by an Unstable Biped Robot based on Off-Policy Natural Actor-Critic
— Recently, many researchers on humanoid robotics are interested in Quasi-Passive-Dynamic Walking (Quasi-PDW) which is similar to human walking. It is desirable that control para...
Tsuyoshi Ueno, Yutaka Nakamura, Takashi Takuma, To...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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An Automatic Approach to Online Color Training in RoboCup Environments
— Many approaches for extracting landmarks and objects from a camera image based on their color coding were published in the RoboCup domain. They are quite sophisticated and tune...
Patrick Heinemann, Frank Sehnke, Felix Streichert,...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Kinematic Calibration of a Gough-Stewart Platform Using an Omnidirectional Camera
— This paper is related to the vision-based control of parallel robots. Indeed, a method is proposed to estimate the reduced set of kinematic parameters appearing in such a contr...
Tej Dallej, Hicham Hadj-Abdelkader, Nicolas Andref...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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A Framework for Automatic Deployment of Robots in 2D and 3D Environments
Abstract— We present a computational framework for automatic deployment of robots in 2D and 3D rectangular environments with polytopal obstacles. The results are derived for poly...
Marius Kloetzer, Calin Belta