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IROS
2009
IEEE
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An exploration method for general robotic systems equipped with multiple sensors
Abstract— This paper presents a novel method for sensorbased exploration of unknown environments by a general robotic system equipped with multiple sensors. The method is based o...
Luigi Freda, Giuseppe Oriolo, Francesco Vecchioli
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Biped navigation in rough environments using on-board sensing
— We present an approach to navigating a biped robot safely and efficiently through a complicated environment of previously unknown obstacles and terrain using only onboard sens...
Joel E. Chestnutt, Yutaka Takaoka, Keisuke Suga, K...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Human Robot interaction studies on laban human movement analysis and dynamic background segmentation
— Human movement analysis through vision sensing systems is an important subject regarding Human-Robot interaction. This is a growing area of research, with wide range of aplicat...
Luis Santos, José Augusto Prado, Jorge Dias
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Lane boundary and curb estimation with lateral uncertainties
— This paper describes an algorithm for estimating lane boundaries and curbs from a moving vehicle using noisy observations and a probabilistic model of curvature. The primary co...
Albert S. Huang, Seth J. Teller
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Autonomous altitude estimation of a UAV using a single onboard camera
Abstract— Autonomous estimation of the altitude of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is extremely important when dealing with flight maneuvers like landing, steady flight, etc. ...
Anoop Cherian, Jonathan Andersh, Vassilios Morella...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Estimation-based disturbance rejection in control for limit cycle generation on inertia wheel inverted pendulum testbed
Abstract— This paper deals with constant disturbances rejection in limit cycle tracking for an underactuated mechanical system. The feedback controler presented in [1] is enhance...
Sebastien Andary, Ahmed Chemori, Sébastien ...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Steering a humanoid robot by its head
Manish N. Sreenivasa, Philippe Souères, Jea...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Complex networks of simple neurons for bipedal locomotion
— Fluid bipedal locomotion remains a significant challenge for humanoid robotics. Recent bio-inspired approaches have made significant progress by using small numbers of tightl...
Brian F. Allen, Petros Faloutsos
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Stability of haptic obstacle avoidance and force interaction
— Stability problems associated with haptics and robot control with obstacle avoidance are analyzed. Obstacle avoidance algorithms are revised to accomplish stable redesign using...
Rolf Johansson, Magnus Annerstedt, Anders Robertss...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Visual Place Categorization: Problem, dataset, and algorithm
Abstract— In this paper we describe the problem of Visual Place Categorization (VPC) for mobile robotics, which involves predicting the semantic category of a place from image me...
Jianxin Wu, Henrik I. Christensen, James M. Rehg