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ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Nonlinear Performance Limits for High Energy Density Piezoelectric Bending Actuators
Abstract— To keep pace with recent advances in microrobotic structures demands actuator technologies which can deliver high power and precise motion. For electroactive material b...
Robert J. Wood, Erik Steltz, Ronald S. Fearing
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Integrating Tactile and Force Feedback with Finite Element Models
— Few systems have integrated the correct tactile and kinesthetic force feedback response with an accurate computational model of a compliant environment. We examine several desi...
Christopher R. Wagner, Douglas P. Perrin, Ross L. ...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Scan Matching in the Hough Domain
— Scan matching is used as a building block in many robotic applications, for localization and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Although many techniques have been pr...
Andrea Censi, Luca Iocchi, Giorgio Grisetti
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Robust Contrast Invariant Stereo Correspondence
— A stereo pair of cameras attached to a robot will inevitably yield images with different contrast. Even if we assume that the camera hardware is identical, due to slightly diff...
Abhijit S. Ogale, Yiannis Aloimonos
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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An Incremental Harmonic Function-based Probabilistic Roadmap Approach to Robot Path Planning
— A new hybrid motion planning technique based on Harmonic Functions (HF) and Probabilistic Roadmaps (PRM) is presented. The proposed approach consists of incrementally building ...
Moslem Kazemi, Mehran Mehrandezh, Kamal K. Gupta
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Iteratively Locating Voronoi Vertices for Dispersion Estimation
— We present a new sampling-based algorithm for iteratively locating Voronoi vertices of a point set in the unit cube Id = [0, 1]d . The algorithm takes an input sample and execu...
Stephen R. Lindemann, Peng Cheng
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Grasp Recognition for Programming by Demonstration
— The demand for flexible and re-programmable robots has increased the need for programming by demonstration systems. In this paper, grasp recognition is considered in a program...
Staffan Ekvall, Danica Kragic
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Fast Line, Arc/Circle and Leg Detection from Laser Scan Data in a Player Driver
— A feature detection system has been developed for real-time identification of lines, circles and people legs from laser range data. A new method suitable for arc/circle detect...
João Xavier, Marco Pacheco, Daniel Castro, ...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Decentralized Collaborative Load Transport by Multiple Robots
Abstract— With the rapid progress of the robotic technology, it is becoming increasingly common to have multiple robots working together for material transport, cooperative assem...
Gustavo Montemayor, John T. Wen