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IROS
2006
IEEE
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Optimization of Industrial Applications with Hardware in the Loop
This paper deals with optimizing the task cycle time of industrial robots integrated in complex robot cells. Trajectory optimizers are usually based on models and can’t properly...
Matthieu Guilbert, Pierre-Brice Wieber, Luc D. Jol...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Development of an Active Flexible Cable by Ciliary Vibration Drive for Scope Camera
— Proposed new actuation mechanism realizes active or semi-active mobility for flexible long cables such as fiberscopes and scope cameras. A ciliary vibration mechanism was dev...
Kazuya Isaki, Akira Niitsuma, Masashi Konyo, Fumia...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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A New Method of Executing Multiple Auxiliary Tasks by Redundant Nonholonomic Mobile Manipulators
— This paper addresses the multiple tasks performing issues for redundant nonholonomic mobile manipulators. An extended gradient projection redundancy resolution scheme is propos...
Yugang Liu, Yangmin Li
IROS
2006
IEEE
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A Novel Self Organizing Network to Perform Fast Moving Object Extraction from Video Streams
— Image segmentation is a critical task in computer vision. In the context of motion detection, a very popular segmentation approach is background substraction which consists in ...
Dizan Vasquez, Thierry Fraichard
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Robust Mapless Outdoor Vision-Based Navigation
Abstract— This article presents an efficient and mature visionbased navigation algorithm based on a sensory-motor learning. Neither Cartesian nor topological map is required, bu...
Christophe Giovannangeli, Philippe Gaussier, Gael ...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Learning Similar Tasks From Observation and Practice
— This paper presents a case study of learning to select behavioral primitives and generate subgoals from observation and practice. Our approach uses local features to generalize...
Darrin C. Bentivegna, Christopher G. Atkeson, Gord...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Consistency of the EKF-SLAM Algorithm
— This paper presents an analysis of the extended Kalman filter formulation of simultaneous localisation and mapping (EKF-SLAM). We show that the algorithm produces very optimis...
Tim Bailey, Juan Nieto, José E. Guivant, Mi...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Improving the Consistency of Relative Map
Abstract— In this paper, the Independence Relative Map algorithm is presented. The algorithm aims to achieve the independence of relative map states. We show that using dependent...
Viet Nguyen, Agostino Martinelli, Roland Siegwart
IROS
2006
IEEE
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A Randomized Method for Integrated Exploration
Luigi Freda, Francesco Loiudice, Giuseppe Oriolo
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Experience Based Imitation Using RNNPB
—Robot imitation is a useful and promising alternative to robot programming. Robot imitation involves two crucial issues. The first is how a robot can imitate a human whose phys...
Ryunosuke Yokoya, Tetsuya Ogata, Jun Tani, Kazunor...