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IROS
2007
IEEE
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Controlling a team of ground robots via an aerial robot
— We consider the task of controlling a large team of nonholonomic ground robots with an unmanned aerial vehicle in a decentralized manner that is invariant to the number of grou...
Nathan Michael, Jonathan Fink, Vijay Kumar
IROS
2007
IEEE
180views Robotics» more  IROS 2007»
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Detection of thrown objects in indoor and outdoor scenes
— We present a novel technique for the detection of hand-thrown objects in a video sequence. Our method runs in real-time and was designed to be used as a component in a deployed...
Evan Ribnick, Stefan Atev, Nikolaos Papanikolopoul...
IROS
2007
IEEE
164views Robotics» more  IROS 2007»
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Analysis of indeterminate contact forces in robotic grasping and contact tasks
— In this paper, we analyze indeterminate contact forces in robotic grasping and contact tasks. Previous studies by Omata and Nagata showed that there is a constraint on static f...
Yusuke Maeda, Koutarou Oda, Satoshi Makita
IROS
2007
IEEE
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A modular robotic system using magnetic force effectors
— One of the primary impediments to building ensembles with many modular robots is the complexity and number of mechanical mechanisms used to construct the individual modules. As...
Brian T. Kirby, Burak Aksak, Jason Campbell, James...
IROS
2007
IEEE
159views Robotics» more  IROS 2007»
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Transfer of policies based on trajectory libraries
— Libraries of trajectories are a promising way of creating policies for difficult problems. However, often it is not desirable or even possible to create a new library for ever...
Martin Stolle, Hanns Tappeiner, Joel E. Chestnutt,...
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Design of a spring backbone micro endoscope
— This work introduces a modified endoscope structure that employs a spring as its backbone. This design allows backdrivability of the mechanism due to the flexibility of the spr...
Dong-Geol Choi, Byung-Ju Yi, Whee Kuk Kim
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Towards robotic self-reassembly after explosion
— This paper introduces a new challenge problem, designing robotic systems to recover after disassembly from high energy events. Implementation of a camera-based localization alg...
Mark Yim, Babak Shirmohammadi, Jimmy Sastra, Micha...
IROS
2007
IEEE
210views Robotics» more  IROS 2007»
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Extrinsic self calibration of a camera and a 3D laser range finder from natural scenes
— In this paper, we describe a new approach for the extrinsic calibration of a camera with a 3D laser range finder, that can be done on the fly. This approach does not require an...
Davide Scaramuzza, Ahad Harati, Roland Siegwart
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Biologically-inspired robotics vision monte-carlo localization in the outdoor environment
— We present a robot localization system using biologically-inspired vision. Our system models two extensively studied human visual capabilities: (1) extracting the “gist” of...
Christian Siagian, Laurent Itti
IROS
2007
IEEE
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A forward model of optic flow for detecting external forces
Leonidas Georgopoulos, Gillian M. Hayes, George Di...