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TSMC
2010
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Interactive Teaching for Vision-Based Mobile Robots: A Sensory-Motor Approach
Abstract--For the last decade, we have developed a visionbased architecture for mobile robot navigation. Our bio-inspired model of the navigation has proved to achieve sensory-moto...
Christophe Giovannangeli, Philippe Gaussier
KI
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
eSLAM - Self Localisation and Mapping Using Embodied Data
Autonomous mobile robots have the potential to change our everyday life. Unresolved challenges which span a large spectrum of artificial intelligence research need to be answered t...
Jakob Schwendner, Frank Kirchner
KI
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Towards Automatic Manipulation Action Planning for Service Robots
A service robot should be able to automatically plan manipulation actions to help people in domestic environments. Following the classic senseplan-act cycle, in this paper we prese...
Steffen W. Ruehl, Zhixing Xue, Thilo Kerscher, R&u...
JDCTA
2010
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Computer Interaction System using Hand Posture Identification
Natural and friendly interface is critical for the development of service robots. Gesture-based interface offers a way to enable untrained users to interact with robots more easil...
Sushma D. Ghode, S. A. Chhabria, R. V. Dharaskar
IJSR
2010
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Safety Analysis for a Human-Friendly Manipulator
Abstract The DLR Lightweight Robot III (LWR-III) developed at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) is characterized by low inertial properties, torque sensing in each joint, and a loa...
Sami Haddadin, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Gerd Hirzi...
TROB
2011
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Mapping and Pursuit-Evasion Strategies For a Simple Wall-Following Robot
— This paper defines and analyzes a simple robot with local sensors that moves in an unknown polygonal environment. The robot can execute wall-following motions and can traverse...
Max Katsev, Anna Yershova, Benjamín Tovar, ...
CDC
2010
IEEE
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Multi-robot monitoring in dynamic environments with guaranteed currency of observations
Abstract-- In this paper we consider the problem of monitoring a known set of stationary features (or locations of interest) in an environment. To observe a feature, a robot must v...
Stephen L. Smith, Daniela Rus
CDC
2010
IEEE
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Optimal trajectories for multi robot localization
This paper considers the problem of multi robot localization. The analysis is focused on the problem of determining which are the optimal robot trajectories in order to minimize th...
Andrea Cristofaro, Agostino Martinelli
CDC
2010
IEEE
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Motion planning with hybrid dynamics and temporal goals
In this paper, we consider the problem of motion planning for mobile robots with nonlinear hybrid dynamics, and high-level temporal goals. We use a multi-layered synergistic framew...
Amit Bhatia, Lydia E. Kavraki, Moshe Y. Vardi
CCIA
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Learning Force-Based Robot Skills from Haptic Demonstration
Locally weighted as well as Gaussian mixtures learning algorithms are suitable strategies for trajectory learning and skill acquisition, in the context of programming by demonstrat...
Leonel Rozo, Pablo Jiménez, Carme Torras