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IROS
2007
IEEE
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Design and control of a second-generation hyper-redundant mechanism
— We present a refined, second-generation design, construction and integration, of a compact hyper-redundant snakelike robot, called “Woodstock.” This robot has substantial a...
H. Ben Brown, Michael Schwerin, Elie A. Shammas, H...
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Vocal imitation using physical vocal tract model
— A vocal imitation system was developed using a computational model that supports the motor theory of speech perception. A critical problem in vocal imitation is how to generate...
Hisashi Kanda, Tetsuya Ogata, Kazunori Komatani, H...
IROS
2007
IEEE
113views Robotics» more  IROS 2007»
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Collective construction of environmentally-adaptive structures
— We describe decentralized algorithms by which a swarm of simple, independent, autonomous robots can build two-dimensional structures using square building blocks. These structu...
Justin Werfel, Donald E. Ingber, Radhika Nagpal
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Analyzing gaussian proposal distributions for mapping with rao-blackwellized particle filters
Abstract— Particle filters are a frequently used filtering technique in the robotics community. They have been successfully applied to problems such as localization, mapping, o...
Cyrill Stachniss, Giorgio Grisetti, Wolfram Burgar...
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Orchestrating concurrency in robot swarms
— A functional approach to programming robot swarms brings with it well-defined properties that allow for automated concurrency and distributed execution. Further, the particula...
Anthony Cowley, Camillo J. Taylor
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Trajectory recovery and 3D mapping from rotation-compensated imagery for an airship
— On this paper, inertial orientation measurements are exploited to compensate the rotational degrees of freedom for an aerial vehicle carrying a perspective camera, taking a seq...
Luiz G. B. Mirisola, Jorge Dias, Anibal T. de Alme...
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Lagrangian dynamics of open multibody systems with generalized holonomic and nonholonomic joints
— Standard methods to model multibody systems are aimed at systems with configuration spaces isomorphic to Rn . This limitation leads to singularities and other artifacts in cas...
Vincent Duindam, Stefano Stramigioli
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Differential evolution approach to the grid-based localization and mapping problem
— A new solution to the Simultaneous Localization and Modelling problem is presented. It is based on the stochastic search of solutions in the state space to the global localizat...
Luis Moreno, Santiago Garrido, Fernando Martin, Ma...
IROS
2007
IEEE
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An optimal planning of falling motions of a humanoid robot
— This paper studies an optimal planning of falling motions of a human-sized humanoid robot to reduce the damage of the robot. We developed a human-sized robot HRP-2FX which has ...
Kiyoshi Fujiwara, Shuuji Kajita, Kensuke Harada, K...
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Learning maps in 3D using attitude and noisy vision sensors
— In this paper, we address the problem of learning 3D maps of the environment using a cheap sensor setup which consists of two standard web cams and a low cost inertial measurem...
Bastian Steder, Giorgio Grisetti, Slawomir Grzonka...