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ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Probabilistic target detection by camera-equipped UAVs
— This paper is motivated by the real world problem of search and rescue by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). We consider the problem of tracking a static target from a bird’sey...
Andrew Colquhoun Symington, Sonia Waharte, Simon J...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Cooperative caging using autonomous aquatic surface vehicles
— We present a study on the use of cooperative robots to execute a caging mission on the water’s surface. In particular, we consider the problem of using two robotic boats (und...
Filippo Arrichiello, Hordur Kristinn Heidarsson, S...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Plugfest 2009: Global interoperability in Telerobotics and telemedicine
— Despite the great diversity of teleoperator designs and applications, their underlying control systems have many similarities. These similarities can be exploited to enable int...
Hawkeye H. I. King, Blake Hannaford, Ka-Wai Kwok, ...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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A general Gaussian-mixture approach for range-only mapping using multiple hypotheses
— Radio signal-based localization and mapping is becoming more interesting as applications involving the collaboration between robots and static wireless devices are more common....
Fernando Caballero, Luis Merino, Aníbal Oll...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Ground robot navigation using uncalibrated cameras
Abstract— Precise calibration of camera intrinsic and extrinsic parameters, while often useful, is difficult to obtain during field operation and presents scaling issues for mu...
Olivier Koch, Matthew R. Walter, Albert S. Huang, ...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Learning to grasp objects with multiple contact points
— We consider the problem of grasping novel objects and its application to cleaning a desk. A recent successful approach applies machine learning to learn one grasp point in an i...
Quoc V. Le, David Kamm, A. F. Kara, Andrew Y. Ng
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Using recursive spectral registrations to determine brokenness as measure of structural map errors
—There are many common error sources that influence mapping, e.g., salt and pepper noise as well as other effects occurring quite uniformly distributed over the map. On the oth...
Andreas Birk
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Real-time monocular SLAM: Why filter?
Abstract— While the most accurate solution to off-line structure from motion (SFM) problems is undoubtedly to extract as much correspondence information as possible and perform g...
Hauke Strasdat, J. M. M. Montiel, Andrew J. Daviso...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Adaptive exploitation of multipath fading for mobile sensors
— Mobile wireless sensors in indoor environments will experience multipath fading, causing rapid variations in the capacity of the radio link. We present a strategy that increase...
Magnus Lindhé, Karl Henrik Johansson
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Learning physically-instantiated game play through visual observation
Abstract— We present an integrated vision and robotic system that plays, and learns to play, simple physically-instantiated board games that are variants of TIC TAC TOE and HEXAP...
Andrei Barbu, Siddharth Narayanaswamy, Jeffrey Mar...