ICRA
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
— We present a method for controlling the forward speed and the apex height of a one-legged hopping robot over rough terrain, using a single actuator located at the robot hip. Th...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
— We describe the design of a juggling robot that is able to vertically bounce a completely unconstrained ball without any sensing. The robot consists of a linear motor actuating...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
Abstract— This paper addresses the problem of featurebased robot localization in large-size environments. With recent progress in SLAM techniques, it has become crucial for a rob...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
—Unstructured, human environments present great challenges and opportunities for robotic manipulation and grasping. Robots that reliably grasp household objects with unknown or u...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
— Human beings can perceive object properties such as size, weight, and material type based solely on the sounds that the objects make when an action is performed on them. In ord...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
— This paper describes the development of a legged robot designed for general locomotion of complex terrain but specialized for dynamical, high-speed climbing of a uniformly conv...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
—Collision safety between humans and robots has drawn much attention since service robots are increasingly being used in human environments. A safe robot arm based on passive com...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
Abstract— In this paper, we describe the design of a deformable robot with a tensegrity structure that can crawl and we show the results of experiments showing the ability of the...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
— The creation of a robot capable of navigating in unknown urban environments without the use of GPS data or prior map knowledge is envisioned in the Autonomous City Explorer (AC...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
Abstract— Stigmergy is a mechanism that allows the coordination of actions within the same agent or across different agents by means of traces left in the environment. We propose...