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ICRA
2003
IEEE
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On the force capability of underactuated fingers
This paper studies the force capability of a particular class of underactuated fingers. Force capability is defined as the ability to create an external wrench onto a fixed obj...
Lionel Birglen, Clément Gosselin
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Mechatronic design of innovative fingers for anthropomorphic robot hands
— In this paper, a novel design approach for the development of robot hands is presented. This approach, that can be considered alternative to the “classical” one, takes into...
Luigi Biagiotti, Fabrizio Lotti, Claudio Melchiorr...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Adapting navigation strategies using motions patterns of people
— As people move through their environments, they do not move randomly. Instead, they are often engaged in typical motion patterns, related to specific locations they might be i...
Maren Bennewitz, Wolfram Burgard, Sebastian Thrun
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Learning to optimize mobile robot navigation based on HTN plans
Thorsten Belker, Martin Hammel, Joachim Hertzberg
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Kinematic Modelling of Wheeled Mobile Manipulators
We propose a systematic modelling of the nonholonomic mobile manipulators built from a robotic arm mounted on a wheeled mobile platform. It extends the fundamental notions of nonh...
Bernard Bayle, Jean-Yves Fourquet, Marc Renaud
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Modeling and control of a monopropellant-based pneumatic actuation system
This work describes the modeling and control of a proposed actuation system that is capable of pressurizing a chamber volume via the catalytic decomposition of a liquid monopropel...
Eric J. Barth, Michael A. Gogola, Michael Goldfarb
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Constrained initialisation for bearing-only SLAM
— Simultaneous Localisation And Mapping (SLAM) is a stochastic map building method which permits consistent robot navigation without requiring an a priori map. The map is built i...
Tim Bailey
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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i-Fork: a flexible AGV system using topological and grid maps
- In this paper we describe the navigation and planning of the i-Fork system, a flexible AGV intended to operate in partially structured warehouses where frequent floor plant layou...
Humberto Martínez Barberá, Juan Petr...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Ada -intelligent space: an artificial creature for the swiss Expo.02
Ada is an entertainment exhibit that is able to interact with many people simultaneously, using a language of light and sound. “She” received 553,700 visitors over 5 months du...
Kynan Eng, Andreas Bäbler, Ulysses Bernardet,...