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ICRA
2003
IEEE
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A miniature inspection robot negotiating pipes of widely varying diameter
The purpose of this research is to realize a small robot which can negotiate pipes whose diameter varies widely during the robot’s course. A new in-pipe locomotion mechanism nam...
Koichi Suzumori, Shuichi Wakimoto, Masanori Takata
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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A comparison of Gaussian and mean curvatures estimation methods on triangular meshes
Estimating intrinsic geometric properties of a surface from a polygonal mesh obtained from range data is an important stage of numerous algorithms in computer and robot vision, co...
Tatiana Surazhsky, Evgeni Magid, Octavian Soldea, ...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Design and implementation of a behavior-based control and learning architecture for mobile robots
− A behavior-based control and learning architecture is proposed, where reinforcement learning is applied to learn proper associations between stimulus and response by using two ...
Il Hong Suh, Sanghoon Lee, Bong Oh Kim, Byung-Ju Y...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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A real-time robust eye tracking system for autostereoscopic displays using stereo cameras
− Autostereoscopic display systems can provide users a natural 3-D visualization environment by projecting stereo video onto the user's eyes. Eye position localization is a ...
Chan-Hung Su, Yong-Sheng Chen, Yi-Ping Hung, Chu-S...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Bilateral time-scaling for control of task freedoms of a constrained nonholonomic system
— We explore the control of a nonholonomic robot subject to additional constraints on the state variables. In our problem, the user specifies the path of a subset of the state v...
Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Michael Erdmann, Matthew ...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Design of a redundantly actuated leg mechanism
− In humanoid robot system, many human-body motions such as walking, running, jumping, etc require large power. To achieve a high power-to-weight ratio, this paper proposes a new...
Byung Rok So, Byung-Ju Yi, Whee Kuk Kim, Sang-Rok ...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Synthetic gecko foot-hair micro/nano-structures for future wall-climbing robots
— This paper proposes techniques to fabricate synthetic gecko foot-hairs for future wall-climbing robots, and models for understanding the synthetic hair design issues. Two nanom...
Metin Sitti, Ronald S. Fearing
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Two-dimensional signal transmission technology for robotics
The forms of communication available now are categorized into the one or three dimensional. One dimensional communication includes metal wires and optical fibers in which the elec...
Hiroyuki Shinoda, Naoya Asamura, Mitsuhiro Hakozak...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Wearable-based evaluation of human-robot interactions in robot path-planning
In Robotics, many path-planning algorithms have been proposed but almost all are evaluated only by their path lengths in PC. However, the evaluation is completely independent of a...
Ritsu Shikata, Takayuki Goto, Hiroshi Noborio, Hir...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Self-assembly in space via self-reconfigurable robots
― Self-assembly systems in space are arguably within the reach of today’s technology based on the research and development of self-reconfigurable robots on earth. This paper pr...
Wei-Min Shen, Peter M. Will, Berok Khoshnevis