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IROS
2007
IEEE
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Kernel-based visual servoing
— Traditionally, visual servoing is separated into tracking and control subsystems. This separation, though convenient, is not necessarily well justified. When tracking and cont...
Vinutha Kallem, Maneesh Dewan, John P. Swensen, Gr...
IROS
2007
IEEE
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A lightweight SLAM algorithm using Orthogonal planes for indoor mobile robotics
— Simple, fast and lightweight SLAM algorithms are necessary in many embedded robotic systems which soon will be used in houses and offices in order to do various service tasks....
Viet Nguyen, Ahad Harati, Roland Siegwart
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Bipedal walking on rough terrain using manifold control
— This paper presents an algorithm for adapting periodic behavior to gradual shifts in task parameters. Since learning optimal control in high dimensional domains is subject to t...
Tom Erez, William D. Smart
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Capturing robot workspace structure: representing robot capabilities
— Humans have at some point learned an abstraction of the capabilities of their arms. By just looking at the scene they can decide which places or objects they can easily reach a...
Franziska Zacharias, Christoph Borst, Gerd Hirzing...
IROS
2007
IEEE
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A two-phased object orientation controller on soft finger operations
Abstract— The greatest characteristic of soft-fingered manipulation is its softness and flexibility during manipulating operations. In previous works, this intrinsic property h...
Takahiro Inoue, Shinichi Hirai
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Global action selection for illumination invariant color modeling
— A major challenge in the path of widespread use of mobile robots is the ability to function autonomously, learning useful features from the environment and using them to adapt ...
Mohan Sridharan, Peter Stone
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Speech and action: integration of action and language for mobile robots
— We describe the tight integration of incremental natural language understanding, goal management, and action processing in a complex robotic architecture, which is required for...
Timothy Brick, Paul W. Schermerhorn, Matthias Sche...
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Learning humanoid reaching tasks in dynamic environments
— A central challenging problem in humanoid robotics is to plan and execute dynamic tasks in dynamic environments. Given that the environment is known, sampling-based online moti...
Xiaoxi Jiang, Marcelo Kallmann
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Compact magnetic wheeled robot with high mobility for inspecting complex shaped pipe structures
— This paper describes a compact robot with two magnetic wheels in a bicycle arrangement, which is intended for inspecting the inner casing of pipes with complex shaped structure...
Fabien Tâche, Wolfgang Fischer, Roland Siegw...
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Genetic MRF model optimization for real-time victim detection in search and rescue
— One primary goal in rescue robotics is to deploy a team of robots for coordinated victim search after a disaster. This requires robots to perform subtasks, such as victim detec...
Alexander Kleiner, Rainer Kümmerle