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IROS
2009
IEEE
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Enhancing an automated Braille Writing Tutor
— The reported work advances the state-of-the-art in assistive technology for the blind by enhancing a low-cost automated tutor designed to teach braille writing skills to visual...
Mohammed Kaleemur Rahman, Saurabh Sanghvi, Noura E...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Scene recognition with omnidirectional vision for topological map using lightweight adaptive descriptors
Abstract— Mobile robots rely on their ability of scene recognition to build a topological map of the environment and perform location-related tasks. In this paper, we describe a ...
Ming Liu, Davide Scaramuzza, Cédric Pradali...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Pairwise region-based scan alignment
— In this paper, we present a new algorithm for the alignment of two 3D scans. The approach uses a region-based matching technique. We make no assumptions about the initial posit...
Carla Silva Rocha Aguiar, Sébastien Druon, ...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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A tale of two planners: Modular robotic planning with LDP
Abstract— LDP (Locally Distributed Predicates) is a distributed, high-level language for programming modular reconfigurable robot systems (MRRs). In this paper we present the im...
Michael DeRosa, Seth Copen Goldstein, Peter Lee, P...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Joint calibration of multiple sensors
— Many calibration methods calibrate a pair of sensors at a time. For robotic systems with many sensors, they are often time-consuming to use, and can also lead to inaccurate res...
Quoc V. Le, Andrew Y. Ng
IROS
2009
IEEE
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A discrete grid abstraction for formation control in the presence of obstacles
Damjan Miklic, Stjepan Bogdan, Sanjin Nestic, Rafa...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Systems and algorithms for autonomously simultaneous observation of multiple objects using robotic PTZ cameras assisted by a wid
— We report an autonomous observation system with multiple pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras assisted by a fixed wideangle camera. The wide-angle camera provides large but low resolut...
Yiliang Xu, Dezhen Song
IROS
2009
IEEE
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A programming architecture for smart autonomous underwater vehicles
— Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are an indispensable tool for marine scientists to study the world’s oceans. The Slocum glider is a buoyancy driven AUV designed for mis...
Hans C. Woithe, Ulrich Kremer