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IROS
2008
IEEE
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Mechanical design of odin, an extendable heterogeneous deformable modular robot
— Highly sophisticated animals consist of a set of heterogenous modules decided by nature so that they can survive in a complex environment. In this paper we present a new modula...
Andreas Lyder, Ricardo Franco Mendoza Garcia, Kasp...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Parametric excitation based gait generation for ornithoid walking
— The parametric excitation based gait generation method proposed by Asano et al. restores mechanical energy lost by heel-strike collisions. Harata et. al. applied this method to...
Yuji Harata, Fumihiko Asano, Kouichi Taji, Yoji Un...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Optimal design of a 6-dof parallel measurement mechanism integrated in a 3-dof parallel machine-tool
Abstract— This paper presents the design and the optimization of a parallel machine-tool composed of (i) an 3-dof actuated parallel mechanism (a linear Delta) and (ii) a 6-dof me...
David Corbel, Olivier Company, François Pie...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Scalable Bayesian human-robot cooperation in mobile sensor networks
— In this paper, scalable collaborative human-robot systems for information gathering applications are approached as a decentralized Bayesian sensor network problem. Humancompute...
Frédéric Bourgault, Aakash Chokshi, ...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Lane marking detection by side Fisheye Camera
Shigang Li, Yuta Shimomura
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Spatial macroscopic models of a bio-inspired robotic swarm algorithm
— We present a comparative study of two spatially resolved macroscopic models of an autonomous robotic swarm. In previous experiments, the collective behavior of 15 autonomous sw...
Heiko Hamann, Heinz Wörn, Karl Crailsheim, Th...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Blended local planning for generating safe and feasible paths
Abstract— Many planning approaches adhere to the twotiered architecture consisting of a long-range, low fidelity global planner and a short-range high fidelity local planner. W...
Ling Xu, Anthony Stentz
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Selection of robot pre-grasps using box-based shape approximation
— Grasping is a central issue of various robot applications, especially when unknown objects have to be manipulated by the system. In earlier work, we have shown the efficiency ...
Kai Huebner, Danica Kragic
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Detecting obstacles and drop-offs using stereo and motion cues for safe local motion
— A mobile robot operating in an urban environment has to navigate around obstacles and hazards. Though a significant amount of work has been done on detecting obstacles, not mu...
Aniket Murarka, Mohan Sridharan, Benjamin Kuipers
IROS
2008
IEEE
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A robotic KANSEI communication system based on emotional synchronization
- Human-robot communication is an important subject for housekeeping, elderly care and entertainment robots. To make a natural communication entrainment between human and robot emo...
Tatsuya Usui, Kazuomi Kume, Misaki Yamano, Minoru ...