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IROS
2009
IEEE
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Human-robot team navigation in visually complex environments
—Current fully autonomous robots are unable to navigate effectively in visually complex environments due to limitations in sensing and cognition. Full teleoperation using current...
John Carff, Matthew Johnson, Eman El-Sheikh, Jerry...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Fast and robust photomapping with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
— A fast and robust method for visual odometry based on the Fourier-Mellin Invariant (FMI) descriptor is presented. It extends previous FMI based approaches in two ways. First, a...
Heikow Bülow, Andreas Birk
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Visual steering of UAV in unknown environments
— In this paper, we propose a novel approach for the visual navigation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). In contrast to most available methods, a single perspective camera is us...
Chunrong Yuan, Fabian Recktenwald, Hanspeter A. Ma...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Path planning for data assimilation in mobile environmental monitoring systems
— By combining a low-order model of forecast errors, the extended Kalman filter, and classical continuous optimization, we develop an integrated methodology for planning mobile ...
Franz S. Hover
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Biorobotic fins for investigations of fish locomotion
Abstract—Experimental analyses of propulsion in freelyswimming fishes have led to the development of self-propelling pectoral and caudal fin robotic devices. These biorobotic mod...
James L. Tangorra, Christopher J. Esposito, George...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Mobile robotic dynamic tracking for assembly tasks
—Traditional industrial robots have been widely used in automotive manufacturing for nearly 30 years. However, there have been very few attempts to automate mobile robotic system...
Bradley Hamner, Seth Koterba, Jane Shi, Reid G. Si...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Representation and shape estimation of Odin, a parallel under-actuated modular robot
— To understand the capabilities and behavior of a robot it is important to have knowledge about its physical structure and how its actuators control its shape. In this paper we ...
Andreas Lyder, Henrik Gordon Petersen, Kasper St&o...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Mobile robots for offshore inspection and manipulation
— This paper analyzes the potential to apply mobile service robots in offshore oil and gas producing environments. The required hardware and software components and abilities of ...
Matthias Bengel, Kai Pfeiffer, Birgit Graf, Alexan...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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A 3D pose estimator for the visually impaired
— This paper presents an indoor localization system for the visually impaired. The basis of our system is an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) for six degree-of-freedom (d.o.f.) posit...
Joel A. Hesch, Faraz M. Mirzaei, Gian Luca Mariott...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Fault-tolerant formations of mobile robots
—The goal of a robot formation control architecture is to get a number of robots into a specified form. To be effective and practical, the control architecture must be able to tr...
Ross Mead, Robert Long, Jerry B. Weinberg