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IROS
2009
IEEE
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Topological SLAM using neighbourhood information of places
— Perceptual aliasing makes topological navigation a difficult task. In this paper we present a general approach for topological SLAM (simultaneous localisation and mapping) whi...
Felix Werner, Frédéric Maire, Joaqui...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Real time tracking using an active pan-tilt-zoom network camera
— We present here a real time active vision system on a PTZ network camera to track an object of interest. We address two critical issues in this paper. One is the control of the...
Thang Ba Dinh, Qian Yu, Gérard G. Medioni
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Floating visual grasp of unknown objects
— A new method for fast visual grasp of unknown objects using a camera mounted on a robot in an eye-inhand configuration is presented. The method is composed of a fast iterative...
Vincenzo Lippiello, Fabio Ruggiero, Luigi Villani
IROS
2009
IEEE
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On the error analysis of vertical line pair-based monocular visual odometry in urban area
Abstract— When a robot travels in urban area, Global Positional System (GPS) signals might be obstructed by buildings. Hence visual odometry is a choice. We notice that the verti...
Ji Zhang, Dezhen Song
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Kinodynamic motion planning for mobile robots using splines
— This paper presents an approach to time-optimal kinodynamic motion planning for a mobile robot. A global path planner is used to generate collision-free straight-line paths fro...
Boris Lau, Christoph Sprunk, Wolfram Burgard
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Consideration on robotic giant-swing motion generated by reinforcement learning
—This study attempts to make a compact humanoid robot acquire a giant-swing motion without any robotic models by using reinforcement learning; only the interaction with environme...
Masayuki Hara, Naoto Kawabe, Naoki Sakai, Jian Hua...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Wide-angle localization of intraocular devices from focus
Abstract— Future retinal therapies will be partially automated in order to increase the surgeons’ ability to operate near the sensitive structure of the human eye retina. Untet...
Christos Bergeles, Kamran Shamaei, Jake J. Abbott,...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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3D pose and velocity visual tracking based on sequential region of interest acquisition
— This paper presents a high speed visual tracking method based on non simultaneous subimages acquisition. This method is formulated as a virtual visual servoing scheme. The sequ...
Redwan Dahmouche, Nicolas Andreff, Youcef Mezouar,...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Incremental polyphonic audio to score alignment using beat tracking for singer robots
— We aim at developing a singer robot capable of listening to music with its own “ears” and interacting with a human’s musical performance. Such a singer robot requires at ...
Takuma Otsuka, Toru Takahashi, Hiroshi G. Okuno, K...