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JIRS
2010
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Flyphone: Visual Self-Localisation Using a Mobile Phone as Onboard Image Processor on a Quadrocopter
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) needs to orient itself in its operating environment to fly autonomously. Localisation methods based on visual data are independent of erroneous GPS...
Sara Erhard, Karl Engelbert Wenzel, Andreas Zell
JIRS
2010
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Low-Cost Visual Tracking of a Landing Place and Hovering Flight Control with a Microcontroller
The growth of civil and military use has recently promoted the development of unmanned miniature aerial vehicles dedicated to surveillance tasks. These flying vehicles are often ca...
Karl Engelbert Wenzel, Paul Rosset, Andreas Zell
JIRS
2010
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Transition Management for the Smooth Flight of a Small Autonomous Helicopter
Andres Y. Agudelo-Toro, Carlos M. Velez
JIRS
2010
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PDC Control Design for Non-holonomic Wheeled Mobile Robots with Delayed Outputs
El-Hadi Guechi, Jimmy Lauber, Michel Dambrine, Gre...
JIRS
2010
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Designing Decentralized Controllers for Distributed-Air-Jet MEMS-Based Micromanipulators by Reinforcement Learning
Distributed-air-jet MEMS-based systems have been proposed to manipulate small parts with high velocities and without any friction problems. The control of such distributed systems ...
Laëtitia Matignon, Guillaume J. Laurent, Nadi...
JIRS
2010
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A New Algorithm for Measuring and Optimizing the Manipulability Index
The estimation of the performance characteristics of robot manipulators is crucial in robot application and design. Furthermore, studying the manipulability index for every point w...
Ayssam Yehia Elkady, Mohammed Mohammed, Tarek Sobh
JIRS
2010
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Active Visual Perception for Mobile Robot Localization
Abstract Localization is a key issue for a mobile robot, in particular in environments where a globally accurate positioning system, such as GPS, is not available. In these environ...
Javier Correa, Alvaro Soto
JIRS
2010
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Intelligent Control of High-Speed Turning in a Quadruped
Luther R. Palmer, David E. Orin
JIRS
2010
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Simple and Robust Attainment of Transparency Based on Two-Channel Control Architectures Using Time-Delay Control
Abstract This paper investigates simple and robust transparency-attainable control architectures for bilateral teleoperation. The strength of two-channel control architectures and ...
Jonghyun Kim, Hyung-Soon Park, Pyung Hun Chang
JIRS
2010
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On the Generation of Trajectories for Multiple UAVs in Environments with Obstacles
Abstract This paper presents a methodology based on a variation of the Rapidlyexploring Random Trees (RRTs) that generates feasible trajectories for a team of autonomous aerial veh...
Armando Alves Neto, Douglas Guimarães Macha...