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ICRA
2002
IEEE
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Motion Planning for Heterogeneous Modular Mobile Systems
This paper addresses the issue of developing a motion planning algorithm for a general class of modular mobile robots. A modular mobile robot is essentially a reconfigurable robo...
Sachin Chitta, James P. Ostrowski
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Motion planning for humanoid walking in a layered environment
- Motion planning is one of the key capabilities for autonomous humanoid robots. Previous researches have focused on weight balancing, collision detection, and gait generation. Mos...
Tsai-Yen Li, Pei-Feng Chen, Pei-Zhi Huang
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Optimal motion planning for free-flying robots
— This paper addresses the problem of motion planning for free-flying robots. Full state actuation is considered to allow for large displacements of the spacecraft. Motion plann...
Roberto Lampariello, Sunil Kumar Agrawal, Gerd Hir...
COMPGEOM
2004
ACM
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Pushing squares around
We study dynamic self-reconfiguration of modular metamorphic systems. We guarantee the feasibility of motion planning in a rectangular model consisting of square modules that are...
Adrian Dumitrescu, János Pach
COMPGEOM
2004
ACM
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On lines avoiding unit balls in three dimensions
Let B be a set of n unit balls in R3 . We show that the combinatorial complexity of the space of lines in R3 that avoid all the balls of B is O(n3+ε ), for any ε > 0. This re...
Pankaj K. Agarwal, Boris Aronov, Vladlen Koltun, M...
ACMACE
2005
ACM
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Integrate and conquer: the next generation of intelligent avatars
FreeWill+ is a framework that aims at integrating various animation techniques for controlling human-like characters. With heterogeneity and multi-layering as its main design prin...
Jaroslaw Francik, Adam Szarowicz
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Motion Planning and Trajectory Tracking on 2-D Manifolds embedded in 3-D Workspaces
— In this paper we present a methodology that drives and stabilizes a robotic agent moving in a three dimensional environment, to a 2-dimensional manifold embedded in the workspa...
Xanthi Papageorgiou, Savvas G. Loizou, Kostas J. K...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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An Incremental Harmonic Function-based Probabilistic Roadmap Approach to Robot Path Planning
— A new hybrid motion planning technique based on Harmonic Functions (HF) and Probabilistic Roadmaps (PRM) is presented. The proposed approach consists of incrementally building ...
Moslem Kazemi, Mehran Mehrandezh, Kamal K. Gupta
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Sampling-Based Motion Planning Using Predictive Models
— Robotic motion planning requires configuration space exploration. In high-dimensional configuration spaces, a complete exploration is computationally intractable. Practical m...
Brendan Burns, Oliver Brock
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Comparison of Alternate Methods for Distributed Motion Planning of Robot Collectives within a Potential Field Framework
– In this paper, we evaluate the performance of two candidate formulations for distributed motion planning of robot collectives within an Artificial Potential Field (APF) framewo...
Leng-Feng Lee, Rajankumar Bhatt, Venkat Krovi