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2001
Springer
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Advanced Sonar Sensing
Robotics research is dependent on intelligent, fast, accurate, reliable and cheap sensors. Sonar sensing can fulfil these requirements. Moreover sonar physics provides robotics re...
Lindsay Kleeman
ISRR
2001
Springer
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Intelligent Home Appliances
In this paper the use of robots as intelligent appliances is discussed. A number of advertised systems are reviewed and their basic characteristics analyzed. Open issues in terms o...
Henrik I. Christensen
ISRR
2001
Springer
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General Solution for Linearized Error Propagation in Vehicle Odometry
Although odometry is nonlinear, it yields sufficiently to linearized analysis to produce a closed-form transition matrix and a symbolic general solution for both deterministic and...
Alonzo Kelly
ISRR
2001
Springer
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OpenHRP: Open Architecture Humanoid Robotics Platform
This paper introduces an open architecture humanoid robotics platform (OpenHRP for short) on which various building blocks of humanoid robotics can be investigated. OpenHRP is a v...
Hirohisa Hirukawa, Fumio Kanehiro, Shuuji Kajita
ISRR
2001
Springer
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Towards a Realistic Medical Simulator using Virtual Environments and Haptic Interaction
This paper presents our experience towards the conception of a virtual reality medical simulator coupled with haptic interaction aimed at training surgeons. This area of research h...
Christian Laugier, César Mendoza, Kenneth S...
ISRR
2001
Springer
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Probabilistic Adaptive Agent Based System for Dynamic State Estimation using Multiple Visual Cues
Most of current machine vision systems suffer from a lack of flexibility to account for the high variability of unstructured environments. Here, as the state of the world evolves ...
Alvaro Soto, Pradeep K. Khosla
ISRR
2001
Springer
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Vision-based Navigation, Environmental Representations and Imaging Geometries
We discuss the role of spatial representations and visual geometries in vision-based navigation. To a large extent, these choices determine the complexity and robustness of a given...
José Santos-Victor, Alexandre Bernardino
ISRR
2001
Springer
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The Evolution of a Robot Soccer Team
Abstract. This paper traces four years of evolution of the UNSW team in the RoboCup Sony legged robot league. The lessons learned in the creation of a competitive team are instruct...
Claude Sammut, Bernhard Hengst
ISRR
2001
Springer
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Field Robots
Field Robots are machines that work in unstructured environments, including under water, in mines, in forests and on farms, and in the air. These applications involve both advance...
Chuck Thorpe, Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte
ISRR
2001
Springer
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A Single-Query Bi-Directional Probabilistic Roadmap Planner with Lazy Collision Checking
This paper describes the foundations and algorithms of a new probabilistic roadmap (PRM) planner that is: (1) singlequery –i.e., it does not pre-compute a roadmap, but uses the ...
Gildardo Sánchez-Ante, Jean-Claude Latombe