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NN
2008
Springer
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Event detection and localization for small mobile robots using reservoir computing
Reservoir Computing (RC) techniques use a fixed (usually randomly created) recurrent neural network, or more generally any dynamic system, which operates at the edge of stability,...
Eric A. Antonelo, Benjamin Schrauwen, Dirk Strooba...
KES
2006
Springer
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Robust Positioning a Mobile Robot with Active Beacon Sensors
With the development of service robots and with the emerging concept of the ubiquitous world, localization of a mobile robot has become a popular issue. Even though several localiz...
JaeMu Yun, SungBu Kim, JangMyung Lee
KBS
2006
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Robot docking based on omnidirectional vision and reinforcement learning
We present a system for visual robotic docking using an omnidirectional camera coupled with the actor critic reinforcement learning algorithm. The system enables a PeopleBot robot...
David Muse, Cornelius Weber, Stefan Wermter
ENGL
2007
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Vision Based Target-Tracking Realized with Mobile Robots using Extended Kalman Filter
— The paper presents a novel scheme for target-tracking realized with two mobile robots, where one robot is configured as tracker and the other as moving target. Fuzzy C-means cl...
Sheli Sinha Chaudhuri, Amit Konar
KI
2008
Springer
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Learning Dance Movements by Imitation: A Multiple Model Approach
Abstract. Imitation learning is an intuitive and easy way of programming robots. Instead of specifying motor commands, you simply show the robot what to do. This paper presents a m...
Axel Tidemann, Pinar Öztürk
JFR
2006
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A mobile robot system for automatic floor marking
This paper describes a patent awarded system for automatically marking the positions of stands for a trade fair or exhibition. The system has been in operation since August 2003 a...
Patric Jensfelt, Gunnar Gullstrand, Erik Före...
JFR
2008
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Evolution and field performance of a rescue robot
Robots are slowly finding their way into the hands of search and rescue groups. One of the robots contributing to this effort is the Inuktun VGTV-Xtreme series by American Standar...
Mark Micire
JCIT
2008
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A Prospective Fuzzy Logic approach to Knowledge-based Navigation of Mobile LEGO-Robot
The development of techniques for knowledge-based navigation constitutes one of the major trends in the current research on mobile robotics. Fuzzy logic provides tools that are of...
Hrudaya K. Tripathy, B. K. Tripathy, Pradip K. Das
IJRR
2006
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Scaling Hard Vertical Surfaces with Compliant Microspine Arrays
A new approach for climbing hard vertical surfaces has been developed that allows a robot to scale concrete, stucco, brick and masonry walls without using suction or adhesives. The...
Alan T. Asbeck, Sangbae Kim, Mark R. Cutkosky, Wil...
IJRR
2006
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Adaptive Tracking Control for Robots with Unknown Kinematic and Dynamic Properties
It has been almost two decades since the first globally tracking convergent adaptive controllers were derived for robot with dynamic uncertainties. However, the problem of concurr...
Chien-Chern Cheah, Chao Liu 0003, Jean-Jacques E. ...