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2000
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Cooperative transport by ants and robots
In several species of ants, workers cooperate to retrieve large prey. Usually, one ant finds a prey item, tries to move it, and when unsuccessful for some time, recruits nestmates...
C. Ronald Kube, Eric Bonabeau
RAS
2000
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Detection, tracking, and classification of action units in facial expression
Most of the current work on automated facial expression analysis attempt to recognize a small set of prototypic expressions, such as joy and fear. Such prototypic expressions, how...
James Jenn-Jier Lien, Takeo Kanade, Jeffrey F. Coh...
RAS
2000
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Biomimetic robot navigation
In the past decade, a large number of robots has been built that explicitly implement biological navigation behaviours. We review these biomimetic approaches using a framework tha...
Matthias O. Franz, Hanspeter A. Mallot
RAS
2000
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A comparative study of soft-computing methodologies in identification of robotic manipulators
This paper investigates the identification of nonlinear systems by utilizing soft-computing approaches. As the identification methods, Feedforward Neural Network architecture (FNN...
Mehmet Önder Efe, Okyay Kaynak
RAS
2000
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Allocating optimal index positions on tool magazines using genetic algorithms
This paper presents an optimisation system software developed for the determination of optimal index positions of cutting tools on the automatic tool changer (ATC) or turret magaz...
Türkay Dereli, I. Hüseyin Filiz
RAS
2000
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Architectures for a biomimetic hexapod robot
This paper describes a six-legged robot based on the features of an agile insect, the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana. The robot is designed with insect-like leg structu...
Fred Delcomyn, Mark E. Nelson
RAS
2000
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Biomimetic Robotics
Carolina Chang, Paolo Gaudiano
RAS
2000
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Collision avoidance using a model of the locust LGMD neuron
The lobula giant movement detector (LGMD) system in the locust responds selectively to objects approaching the animal on a collision course. In earlier work we have presented a ne...
Mark Blanchard, F. Claire Rind, Paul F. M. J. Vers...
RAS
2000
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Computer support for mechatronic control system design
Job van Amerongen, Erik Coelingh, Theo J. A. de Vr...
RAS
2000
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Vision-based intelligent vehicles: State of the art and perspectives
Recently, a large emphasis has been devoted to Automatic Vehicle Guidance since the automation of driving tasks carries a large number of benefits, such as the optimization of the...
Massimo Bertozzi, Alberto Broggi, Alessandra Fasci...