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ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Robot Improv: Using Drama To Create Believable Agents
Believable agents usually depend upon explicit, model-based simulations of human emotions. This work appeals instead to the sensibilities of dramatic acting to create agents that ...
Allison Bruce, Jonathan Knight, Samuel Listopad, B...
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Modeling and Throughput Prediction for Flexible Parts Feeders
In this paper we illustrate a methodology for modeling and analyzing flexible feeders using generalized semi-Markov process (GSMP) models. Working through the simple case consisti...
Michael S. Branicky, Greg C. Causey, Roger D. Quin...
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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A Multi-Robot Cooperative Task Achievement System
Silvia Silva da Costa Botelho, Rachid Alami
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Interception of a Projectile Using a Human Vision-Based Strategy
Visual-servoing tasks for mobile robots characteristically require the processing of vast amounts of navigational information which can impede the performance of even the most wel...
Justin A. Borgstadt, Nicola J. Ferrier
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Emergent Structures in Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robots
Hristo Bojinov, Arancha Casal, Tad Hogg
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Path Planning Using Lazy PRM
Robert Bohlin, Lydia E. Kavraki
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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An Approach to Rapid Manufacturing with Custom Fixturing
We present an approach for automatically generating complete process plans, including xturing and CNC code, from high level shape feature part descriptions. The demonstration syst...
Mark Bloomenthal, Richard F. Riesenfeld, Elaine Co...
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Action Module Planning and its Application to an Experimental Climbing Robot
This paper presents the application of an action module planning method to an experimental climbing robot named LIBRA. The method searches for a sequence of physically realizable ...
David M. Bevly, Shane Farritor, Steven Dubowsky
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Enhancing Randomized Motion Planners: Exploring with Haptic Hints
In this paper, we investigate methods for enabling a human operator and an automatic motion planner to cooperatively solve a motion planning query. Our work is motivated by our ex...
O. Burçhan Bayazit, Guang Song, Nancy M. Am...
ICRA
2000
IEEE
124views Robotics» more  ICRA 2000»
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Local Search Heuristics for the Assembly Line Balancing Problem with Incompatibilities Between Tasks
This paper deals with the Assembly Line Balancing Problem considering incompatibilities between the tasks with the aim of, first, minimizing the number of workstations and, then, ...
Joaquín Bautista, Raúl Suárez...