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ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Control of hopping speed and height over unknown rough terrain using a single actuator
— 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...
Nicholas Cherouvim, Evangelos Papadopoulos
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Bouncing an Unconstrained Ball in Three Dimensions with a Blind Juggling Robot
— 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...
Philipp Reist, Raffaello D'Andrea
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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LSH-RANSAC: An incremental scheme for scalable localization
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...
Kenichi Saeki, Kanji Tanaka, Takeshi Ueda
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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1000 Trials: An empirically validated end effector that robustly grasps objects from the floor
—Unstructured, human environments present great challenges and opportunities for robotic manipulation and grasping. Robots that reliably grasp household objects with unknown or u...
Zhe Xu, Travis Deyle, Charles C. Kemp
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Interactive learning of the acoustic properties of household objects
— 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...
Jivko Sinapov, Mark Wiemer, Alexander Stoytchev
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Rapid pole climbing with a quadrupedal robot
— 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...
G. Clark Haynes, Alex Khripin, Goran Lynch, Jonath...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Safe robot arm with safe joint mechanism using nonlinear spring system for collision safety
—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...
Jung-Jun Park, Hwi-Su Kim, Jae-Bok Song
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Crawling by body deformation of tensegrity structure robots
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...
Mizuho Shibata, Fumio Saijyo, Shinichi Hirai
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Information retrieval system for human-robot communication - Asking for directions
— 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...
Andrea Maria Bauer, Dirk Wollherr, Martin Buss
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Navigating by stigmergy: A realization on an RFID floor for minimalistic robots
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...
Robert Johansson, Alessandro Saffiotti