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ICVS
2001
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A System to Navigate a Robot into a Ship Structure
A prototype system has been built to navigate a walking robot into a ship structure. The 8-legged robot is equipped with a stereo head. From the CAD-model of the ship good viewpoi...
Markus Vincze, Minu Ayromlou, Carlos Beltran, Anto...
AGENTS
2001
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Using rat navigation models to learn orientation from visual input on a mobile robot
Rodents possess extraordinary navigation abilities that are far in excess of what current state-of-the-art robot agents are capable of. This paper describes research that is part ...
Brett Browning
ICHIT
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Creating an autonomous dancing robot
A robot with the ability to dance autonomously has many potential applications, such as serving as a prototype dancer for choreographers or as a participant in stage performances ...
David Grunberg, Robert Ellenberg, Youngmoo Kim, Pa...
HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Nonverbal leakage in robots: communication of intentions through seemingly unintentional behavior
Human communication involves a number of nonverbal cues that are seemingly unintentional, unconscious, and automatic—both in their production and perception—and convey rich in...
Bilge Mutlu, Fumitaka Yamaoka, Takayuki Kanda, Hir...
CDC
2009
IEEE
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Collision-free tracking control of unicycle mobile robots
—We propose a tracking control with collision avoidance for a group of unicycle mobile robots. A supervisory system assigns to each robot its reference path, together with the de...
Dragan Kostic, Sisdarmanto Adinandra, Jurjen Caarl...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
188views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
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Control Architecture and Experiment of a Situated Robot System for Interactive Assembly
We present the development of and experiment with a robot system showing cognitive capabilities of children of three to four years. We focus on two topics: assembly by two hands a...
Jianwei Zhang, Alois Knoll
ICRA
2002
IEEE
128views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
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Reactive Motion Control for Human-Robot Tactile Interaction
In the field of service robotics, robots serve and assist human beings. It is natural for humans to directly interact with the robot via tactile interfaces. This paper introduces...
Thomas Wösch, Wendelin Feitin
ICRA
2002
IEEE
120views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
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Position Based Visual Servoing: Keeping the Object in the Field of Vision
Visual servoing requires an object in the field of view of the camera, in order to control the robot evolution. Otherwise, the virtual link is broken and the control loop cannot c...
Benoit Thuilot, Philippe Martinet, Lionel Cordesse...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
183views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
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Mobile Robot Localization Based on Random Closed Set Model Maps
In this paper we present a novel approach to mobile robot navigation in natural unstructured environments. Natural scenes can be considered as random fields where a large number ...
Stefan Rolfes, Maria-João Rendas
ICRA
2002
IEEE
95views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
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Tendon Arrangement and Muscle Force Requirements for Humanlike Force Capabilities in a Robotic Finger
Human motion can provide a rich source of examples for use in robot grasping and manipulation. Adapting human examples to a robot manipulator is a difficult problem, however, in ...
Nancy S. Pollard, Richards C. Gilbert