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ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Probabilistic localization with a blind robot
Abstract— Researchers have addressed the localization problem for mobile robots using many different kinds of sensors, including rangefinders, cameras, and odometers. In this pa...
Lawrence H. Erickson, Joseph Knuth, Jason M. O'Kan...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Humanoid teleoperation for whole body manipulation
— We present results of successful telemanipulation of large, heavy objects by a humanoid robot. Using a single joystick the operator controls walking and whole body manipulation...
Mike Stilman, Koichi Nishiwaki, Satoshi Kagami
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Speed and height control for a special class of running quadruped robots
— In this work a novel control method is presented for controlling the forward speed and apex height of a special class of running quadruped robot, with a dimensionless inertia o...
Nicholas Cherouvim, Evangelos Papadopoulos
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Use of a novel multipart controller for the parametric study of a trotting quadruped robot
— In this paper a novel multipart control is developed for a trotting quadruped robot. The control is designed to drive the quadruped to a steady-state motion with desired forwar...
Nicholas Cherouvim, Evangelos Papadopoulos
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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A new variable stiffness design: Matching requirements of the next robot generation
— Facing new tasks, the conventional rigid design of robotic joints has come to its limits. Operating in unknown environments current robots are prone to failure when hitting unf...
Sebastian Wolf, Gerd Hirzinger
HRI
2010
ACM
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Judging a bot by its cover: an experiment on expectation setting for personal robots
—Managing user expectations of personal robots becomes particularly challenging when the end-user just wants to know what the robot can do, and neither understands nor cares abou...
Steffi Paepcke, Leila Takayama
MICAI
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
People Detection by a Mobile Robot Using Stereo Vision in Dynamic Indoor Environments
People detection and tracking is a key issue for social robot design and effective human robot interaction. This paper addresses the problem of detecting people with a mobile robo...
José Alberto Méndez-Polanco, Ang&eac...
ISCIS
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Unsupervised learning of affordance relations on a humanoid robot
—In this paper, we study how a humanoid robot can learn affordance relations in his environment through its own interactions in an unsupervised way. Specifically, we developed a...
Baris Akgun, Nilgun Dag, Tahir Bilal, Ilkay Atil, ...
ICMI
2009
Springer
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Multi-modal features for real-time detection of human-robot interaction categories
Social interactions unfold over time, at multiple time scales, and can be observed through multiple sensory modalities. In this paper, we propose a machine learning framework for ...
Ian R. Fasel, Masahiro Shiomi, Pilippe-Emmanuel Ch...
ICIRA
2009
Springer
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The Hand-Bot, a Robot Design for Simultaneous Climbing and Manipulation
We present a novel approach to mobile object manipulation for service in indoor environments. Current research in service robotics focus on single robots able to move, manipulate o...
Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat, Philippe...