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ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Machine-learning based control of a human-like tendon-driven neck
This paper describes the control of a human-like robotic neck actuated with tendons. The controller regulates the length of the tendons to achieve a desired orientation of the neck...
Lorenzo Jamone, Matteo Fumagalli, Giorgio Metta, L...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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From motion planning to trajectory control with bounded jerk for service manipulator robots
To build autonomous robots capable to plan and control tasks in human environments, we need a description of trajectories that allows the robot to reason on his moves. In this pape...
Xavier Broquère, Daniel Sidobre, Khoi Nguye...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Synchronizing the motion of a quadrocopter to music
This paper presents a quadrocopter flying in rhythm to music. The quadrocopter performs a periodic sideto-side motion in time to a musical beat. Underlying controllers are designed...
Angela Schöllig, Federico Augugliaro, Sergei ...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Spring Loaded Inverted Pendulum embedding: Extensions toward the control of compliant running robots
This paper explores systematic control strategies for the stabilization of running on compliant robots with nontrivial torso pitch dynamics. The Spring Loaded Inverted Pendulum (SL...
Ioannis Poulakakis
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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A control strategy for operating unknown constrained mechanisms
Abstract-- This work aims at the development of a versatile control strategy for operating unknown mechanically constrained devices such as drawers or doors. Few assumptions on the...
Ewald Lutscher, Martin Lawitzky, Gordon Cheng, San...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Learning reliable and efficient navigation with a humanoid
Reliable and efficient navigation with a humanoid robot is a difficult task. First, the motion commands are executed rather inaccurately due to backlash in the joints or foot slipp...
Stefan Oßwald, Armin Hornung, Maren Bennewit...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Heteroscedastic Gaussian processes for data fusion in large scale terrain modeling
This paper presents a novel approach to data fusion for stochastic processes that model spatial data. It addresses the problem of data fusion in the context of large scale terrain ...
Shrihari Vasudevan, Fabio T. Ramos, Eric Nettleton...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Unsupervised discovery of repetitive objects
We present a novel approach for unsupervised discovery of repetitive objects from 3D point clouds. Our method assumes that objects are geometrically consistent, and uses multiple o...
Jiwon Shin, Rudolph Triebel, Roland Siegwart
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Optimal motion primitives for multi-UAV convoy protection
In this paper we study the problem of controlling a number of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to provide convoy protection to a group of ground vehicles. The UAVs are modeled as Du...
Amirreza Rahmani, Xu Chu Ding, Magnus Egerstedt
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Towards optimally efficient field estimation with threshold-based pruning in real robotic sensor networks
Abstract-- The efficiency of distributed sensor networks depends on an optimal trade-off between the usage of resources and data quality. The work in this paper addresses the probl...
Amanda Prorok, Christopher M. Cianci, Alcherio Mar...