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IROS
2009
IEEE
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Robotic submerged microhandling controlled by pH swithching
— Robotic microhandling is a promising way to assemble microcomponents in order to manufacture new generation of Hybrid Micro ElectroMechanical Systems (HMEMS). However, at the s...
Jérôme Dejeu, Patrick Rougeot, Micha&...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Motion planning for active cannulas
— An active cannula is a medical device composed of thin, pre-curved, telescoping tubes that may enable many new surgical procedures. Planning optimal motions for these devices i...
Lisa A. Lyons, Robert J. Webster, Ron Alterovitz
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Stable whole-body motion generation for humanoid robots to imitate human motions
—This work presents a methodology to generate dynamically stable whole-body motions for a humanoid robot, which are converted from human motion capture data. The methodology cons...
Seungsu Kim, ChangHwan Kim, Bum-Jae You, Sangrok O...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Scalable self-assembly and self-repair in a collective of robots
—A collective of robots can together complete a task that is beyond the capabilities of any of its individual robots. One property of a robotic collective that allows it to compl...
Michael Rubenstein, Wei-Min Shen
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Decentralized planning for dynamic motion generation of multi-link robotic systems
— This paper presents a decentralized planning method for generating dynamic whole body motions of multilink robots including humanoids. First, a robotic system will be modeled a...
Yuichi Tazaki, Hisashi Sugiura, Herbert Janssen, C...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Planning-based prediction for pedestrians
— We present a novel approach for determining robot movements that efficiently accomplish the robot’s tasks while not hindering the movements of people within the environment....
Brian Ziebart, Nathan D. Ratliff, Garratt Gallaghe...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Data-driven grasping with partial sensor data
— To grasp a novel object, we can index it into a database of known 3D models and use precomputed grasp data for those models to suggest a new grasp. We refer to this idea as dat...
Corey Goldfeder, Matei T. Ciocarlie, Jaime Peretzm...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Utilizing prior information to enhance self-supervised aerial image analysis for extracting parking lot structures
Abstract— Road network information (RNI) simplifies autonomous driving by providing strong priors about driving environments. Its usefulness has been demonstrated in the DARPA U...
Young-Woo Seo, Chris Urmson
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Microparticle manipulation using multiple untethered magnetic micro-robots on an electrostatic surface
Abstract— This work presents the control of multiple untethered rectilinear magnetic micro-robots (Mag-µBots) with dimensions 250 × 130 × 100 µm3 actuated by pulsed external ...
Steven Floyd, Chytra Pawashe, Metin Sitti
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Detecting pedestrians at very small scales
— This paper presents a novel image based detection method for pedestrians at very small scales (between 16 x 20 and 32 x 40). We propose a set of new distinctive image features ...
Luciano Spinello, A. Macho, Rudolph Triebel, Rolan...