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IROS
2007
IEEE
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Learning humanoid reaching tasks in dynamic environments
— A central challenging problem in humanoid robotics is to plan and execute dynamic tasks in dynamic environments. Given that the environment is known, sampling-based online moti...
Xiaoxi Jiang, Marcelo Kallmann
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Compact magnetic wheeled robot with high mobility for inspecting complex shaped pipe structures
— This paper describes a compact robot with two magnetic wheels in a bicycle arrangement, which is intended for inspecting the inner casing of pipes with complex shaped structure...
Fabien Tâche, Wolfgang Fischer, Roland Siegw...
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Genetic MRF model optimization for real-time victim detection in search and rescue
— One primary goal in rescue robotics is to deploy a team of robots for coordinated victim search after a disaster. This requires robots to perform subtasks, such as victim detec...
Alexander Kleiner, Rainer Kümmerle
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Design of an automated transportation system in a seaport container terminal for the reliability of operating robots
— For the design of an automated transportation system in an actual seaport container terminal, it is necessary to take into consideration the maintenance of operating robots (AG...
Satoshi Hoshino, Jun Ota
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Planning for robust execution of humanoid motions using future perceptive capability
— We present an approach to motion planning for highly articulated systems that aims to ensure robust execution by augmenting the planning process to reason about the robot’s a...
Philipp Michel, Christian Scheurer, James J. Kuffn...
IROS
2007
IEEE
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A graph theoretic approach to optimal target tracking for mobile robot teams
Abstract— In this paper, we present an optimization framework for target tracking with mobile robot teams. The target tracking problem is modeled as a generic semidefinite progr...
Jason C. Derenick, John R. Spletzer, M. Ani Hsieh
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Handling shape and contact location uncertainty in grasping two-dimensional planar objects
— This paper addresses the problem of selecting contact locations for grasping objects in the presence of shape and contact location uncertainty. Focusing on two-dimensional plan...
Vassilios N. Christopoulos, Paul R. Schrater
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Computational sensor networks
— We propose Computational Sensor Networks as a methodology to exploit models of physical phenomena in order to better understand the structure of the sensor network. To do so, i...
Thomas C. Henderson, Christopher A. Sikorski, Edwa...
IROS
2007
IEEE
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A Kalman filter for robust outlier detection
— In this paper, we introduce a modified Kalman filter that can perform robust, real-time outlier detection in the observations, without the need for parameter tuning. Robotic ...
Jo-Anne Ting, Evangelos Theodorou, Stefan Schaal
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Person following with a mobile robot using binocular feature-based tracking
Abstract— We present the Binocular Sparse Feature Segmentation (BSFS) algorithm for vision-based person following with a mobile robot. BSFS uses Lucas-Kanade feature detection an...
Zhichao Chen, Stanley T. Birchfield