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ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Indoor Navigation of a Wheeled Mobile Robot along Visual Routes
— When navigating in an unknown environment for the first time, a natural behavior consists in memorizing some key views along the performed path, in order to use these referenc...
Guillaume Le Blanc, Youcef Mezouar, Philippe Marti...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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An Integrated Path Planning and Control Framework for Nonholonomic Unicycles
— In this paper, navigation and control of autonomous mobile unicycle robots in a complex and partially known obstacleridden environment is considered. The unicycle dynamic model...
Kaustubh Pathak, Sunil Kumar Agrawal
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Visual Servoing Sequencing Able to Avoid Obstacles
— Classical visual servoing approaches tend to constrain all degrees of freedom (DOF) of the robot during the execution of a task. In this article a new approach is proposed. The...
Nicolas Mansard, François Chaumette
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Optimal Positioning Strategies for Shape Changes in Robot Teams
Abstract— In this paper, we consider the task of repositioning a formation of robots to a new shape while minimizing either the maximum distance that any robot travels, or the to...
John R. Spletzer, Rafael B. Fierro
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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The Role of Motion Information in Learning Human-Robot Joint Attention
— To realize natural human-robot interactions and investigate the developmental mechanism of human communication, an effective approach is to construct models by which a robot im...
Yukie Nagai
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Interactive Teaching of a Mobile Robot
— Personal service robots are expected to help people in their everyday life in the near future. Such robots must be able to not only move around but also perform various operati...
Jun Miura, Koji Iwase, Yoshiaki Shirai
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Circular/Spherical Robots for Crawling and Jumping
Abstract— We describe circular/spherical robots for crawling and jumping. Locomotion over rough terrain has been achieved mainly by rigid body systems including crawlers and leg ...
Yuuta Sugiyama, Ayumi Shiotsu, Masashi Yamanaka, S...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Dynamic Manipulation of a Sphere on a Disk by Inclination Control of the Disk
- Human beings cannot control a position of sphere on the disk without seeing it. Because under such a condition, as we determine the position and estimate the motion of sphere by ...
Masayuki Hara, Yoshinori Tanaka, Tetsuro Yabuta
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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UPnP Approach for Robot Middleware
- This paper presents an approach to utilize UPnP as a middleware for robots. It describes the advantages of UPnP by comparing UPnP with TAO CORBA that was used in a few robot deve...
Sang Chul Ahn, Jin Hak Kim, Kiwoong Lim, Heedong K...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Leveraging Limited Autonomous Mobility to Frame Attractive Group Photos
- Robot photographers have appeared in a variety of novelty settings over the past few years and typically have exploited rudimentary image-content-based approaches to identifying ...
Jason Campbell, Padmanabhan Pillai