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IROS
2006
IEEE
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Where to Build a Door
— A room is a simple polygon with a prespecified point, called the door, on its boundary. Search starts at the door, and must detect any intruder that may be in the room, while ...
John Z. Zhang, Tsunehiko Kameda
IROS
2006
IEEE
209views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
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A Toolbox for Easily Calibrating Omnidirectional Cameras
- In this paper, we present a novel technique for calibrating central omnidirectional cameras. The proposed procedure is very fast and completely automatic, as the user is only ask...
Davide Scaramuzza, Agostino Martinelli, Roland Sie...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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An autonomous, underactuated exoskeleton for load-carrying augmentation
- Metabolic studies have shown that there is a metabolic cost associated with carrying load [1]. In previous work, a lightweight, underactuated exoskeleton has been described that ...
Conor James Walsh, Kenneth Pasch, Hugh M. Herr
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Learning Predictive Features in Affordance based Robotic Perception Systems
This work is about the relevance of Gibson’s concept of affordances [1] for visual perception in interactive and autonomous robotic systems. In extension to existing functional ...
Gerald Fritz, Lucas Paletta, Ralph Breithaupt, Eri...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Visual Tracking Modalities for a Companion Robot
Abstract— This article presents the development of a humanrobot interaction mechanism based on vision. The functionalities required for such mechanism range from user detection a...
Paulo Menezes, Frédéric Lerasle, Jor...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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A quasi-passive model of human leg function in level-ground walking
- In this paper, we seek to understand how leg muscles and tendons work mechanically during walking in order to motivate the design of efficient robotic legs. We hypothesize that a...
Ken Endo, Daniel Paluska, Hugh M. Herr
IROS
2006
IEEE
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General Kinematic Synthesis Method for a Discretely Actuated Robotic Manipulator (D-ARM)
— A “Discretely Actuated Robotic Manipulator”, or “D-ARM”, is any member of a class of robotic manipulators powered by actuators that have only discrete positional stable...
Keizo Miyahara, Gregory S. Chirikjian
IROS
2006
IEEE
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A 3D Fax Machine based on Claytronics
Abstract— This paper presents a novel application of modular robotic technology. Many researchers expect manufacturing technology will allow robot modules to be built at smaller ...
Padmanabhan Pillai, Jason Campbell, Gautam Kedia, ...
IROS
2006
IEEE
217views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
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Integrating Perception and Planning for Autonomous Navigation of Urban Vehicles
— The paper addresses the problem of autonomous navigation of a car-like robot evolving in an urban environment. Such an environment exhibits an heterogeneous geometry and is clu...
Rodrigo Benenson, Stéphane Petti, Thierry F...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Hierarchical Featureless Tracking for Position-Based 6-DoF Visual Servoing
— Classical position-based visual servoing approaches rely on the presence of distinctive features in the image such as corners and edges. In this contribution we exploit a hiera...
Wolfgang Sepp, Stefan Fuchs, Gerd Hirzinger