— 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...
— 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...
— 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...
— 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...
— 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,...
— 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...
— 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...
— 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...
— We present a robot localization system using biologically-inspired vision. Our system models two extensively studied human visual capabilities: (1) extracting the “gist” of...