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IROS
2006
IEEE
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Gyro stabilized biped walking
— We present here a concept and realization of a dynamic walker that is stabilized by using a fast and heavy rotor, a gyro. The dynamics of a symmetric, fast rotating gyro is dif...
Norbert Michael Mayer, Kazuhiro Masui, Matthew Bro...
IROS
2006
IEEE
122views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
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Team-Driven Multi-Model Motion Tracking with Communication
— Interactions are frequently seen between the robot and the targets being tracked within the robotics community. Modeling the interactions using knowledge of robot cognition imp...
Yang Gu, Manuela M. Veloso
IROS
2006
IEEE
116views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
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XABSL - A Pragmatic Approach to Behavior Engineering
— This paper introduces the Extensible Agent Behavior Specification Language (XABSL) as a pragmatic tool for engineering the behavior of autonomous agents in complex and dynamic...
Martin Lötzsch, Max Risler, Matthias Jün...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Support Vector Path Planning
— This paper describes a unique approach of applying a pattern classification technique to robot path planning. A collision-free path connecting a start and a goal point provide...
Jun Miura
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Submerged Freeze Gripper to Manipulate Micro-objects
— Manipulating microscopic objects with the necessary dexterity still remains a very challenging task. In this paper, we propose a freeze gripper able to manipulate micro-objects...
Beatriz Lopez Walle, Michaël Gauthier, Nicola...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Policy Gradient Methods for Robotics
— The aquisition and improvement of motor skills and control policies for robotics from trial and error is of essential importance if robots should ever leave precisely pre-struc...
Jan Peters, Stefan Schaal
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Control of a Redundant Manipulator Mounted on a Base Plate Suspended by Six Wires
- Two control methods of controlling a redundant manipulator mounted on a base plate suspended by six wires are proposed. By suspending the base plate by six linearly independent w...
Hisashi Osumi, Masayuki Saitoh
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Optimal Trajectory Generation for Manipulator Robots under Thermal Constraints
We propose here to deal with the optimization of velocity profiles of manipulator robots with a minimum time criterion subject to thermal constraints. This paper deals with the r...
Matthieu Guilbert, Pierre-Brice Wieber, Luc D. Jol...
IROS
2006
IEEE
163views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
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Attentional Landmark Selection for Visual SLAM
— In this paper, we introduce a new method to automatically detect useful landmarks for visual SLAM. A biologically motivated attention system detects regions of interest which ...
Simone Frintrop, Patric Jensfelt, Henrik I. Christ...