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IROS
2009
IEEE
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Field trial of networked social robots in a shopping mall
—This paper reports the challenges of developing multiple social robots that operate in a shopping mall. We developed a networked robot system that coordinates multiple social ro...
Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, Dylan F. Glas, Sa...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Data gathering tours for mobile robots
— We study a path planning problem which arises when multiple robots are used to gather data from stationary devices with wireless communication capabilities. Each device has a g...
Deepak Bhadauria, Volkan Isler
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Stochastic mobility-based path planning in uncertain environments
— The ability of mobile robots to generate feasible trajectories online is an important requirement for their autonomous operation in unstructured environments. Many path generat...
Gaurav Kewlani, Genya Ishigami, Karl Iagnemma
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Active segmentation for robotics
— The semantic robots of the immediate future are robots that will be able to find and recognize objects in any environment. They need the capability of segmenting objects in th...
Ajay K. Mishra, Yiannis Aloimonos, Cornelia Ferm&u...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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NAIST hand 2: Human-sized anthropomorphic robot hand with detachable mechanism at the wrist
— Humanoid robots and robotic manipulators with good dexterity are promising to enhance the factory productivity in next generation. Dexterity of robotic manipulators can be achi...
Yuichi Kurita, Yasuhiro Ono, Atsutoshi Ikeda, Tsuk...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Consideration on robotic giant-swing motion generated by reinforcement learning
—This study attempts to make a compact humanoid robot acquire a giant-swing motion without any robotic models by using reinforcement learning; only the interaction with environme...
Masayuki Hara, Naoto Kawabe, Naoki Sakai, Jian Hua...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Stereo vision and terrain modeling for quadruped robots
— Legged robots offer the potential to navigate highly challenging terrain, and there has recently been much progress in this area. However, a great deal of this recent work has ...
J. Zico Kolter, Youngjun Kim, Andrew Y. Ng
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Which landmark is useful? Learning selection policies for navigation in unknown environments
Abstract— In general, a mobile robot that operates in unknown environments has to maintain a map and has to determine its own location given the map. This introduces significant...
Hauke Strasdat, Cyrill Stachniss, Wolfram Burgard
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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A miniature ceiling walking robot with flat tacky elastomeric footpads
—In this paper, the design, analysis, and development of a sixteen-legged palm-sized climbing robot using flat bulk tacky elastomer adhesives as an attachment method is presente...
Ozgur Unver, Metin Sitti
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Equipping robot control programs with first-order probabilistic reasoning capabilities
— An autonomous robot system that is to act in a real-world environment is faced with the problem of having to deal with a high degree of both complexity as well as uncertainty. ...
Dominik Jain, Lorenz Mösenlechner, Michael Be...