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IROS
2007
IEEE
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Scalable SLAM building conditionally independent local maps
— Local maps algorithms have demonstrated to be well suited for mapping large environments as can reduce the computational cost and improve the consistency of the final estimati...
Pedro Pinies, Juan D. Tardós
IROS
2007
IEEE
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High lift force with 275 Hz wing beat in MFI
— The Micromechanical Flying Insect (MFI) project aims to create a 25 mm (wingtip to wingtip) flapping wing micro air vehicle inspired by the aerodynamics of insect flight. A k...
Erik Steltz, Srinath Avadhanula, Ronald S. Fearing
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Stability of discrete-time bilateral teleoperation control
— Discretization of a stabilizing continuous-time bilateral teleoperation controller for digital implementation may not necessarily lead to stable teleoperation. This paper addre...
Mahdi Tavakoli, Arash Aziminejad, Rajni V. Patel, ...
IROS
2007
IEEE
198views Robotics» more  IROS 2007»
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Topological mapping, localization and navigation using image collections
Abstract— In this paper we present a highly scalable visionbased localization and mapping method using image collections. A topological world representation is created online dur...
Friedrich Fraundorfer, Christopher Engels, David N...
IROS
2007
IEEE
205views Robotics» more  IROS 2007»
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Kinematic and dynamic control of a wheeled mobile robot
— This paper considers the problem of stabilizing a unicycle-type mobile robot using a time-invariant, discontinuous control law. In order to simplify the control design, most pr...
David DeVon, Timothy Bretl
IROS
2007
IEEE
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The autonomous city explorer project: aims and system overview
— As robots are gradually leaving highly structured factory environments and moving into human populated environments, they need to possess more complex cognitive abilities. Not ...
Georgios Lidoris, Klaas Klasing, Andrea Maria Baue...
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Dynamic redistribution of a swarm of robots among multiple sites
Abstract— We present an approach for the dynamic assignment and reassignment of a large team of homogeneous robotic agents to multiple locations with applications to search and r...
Ádám M. Halász, M. Ani Hsieh,...
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Dexterous manipulation planning using probabilistic roadmaps in continuous grasp subspaces
— In this paper, we propose a new method for the motion planning problem of rigid object dexterous manipulation with a robotic multi-fingered hand, under quasi-static movement a...
Jean-Philippe Saut, Anis Sahbani, Sahar El-Khoury,...
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Autonomous learning of 3D reaching in a humanoid robot
— In this paper, we describe the implementation of a precise reaching controller on an upper-torso humanoid robot. The solution we propose does not rely on prior models of the ki...
Francesco Nori, Lorenzo Natale, Giulio Sandini, Gi...
IROS
2007
IEEE
101views Robotics» more  IROS 2007»
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Optimizing image and camera trajectories in robot vision control using on-line boosting
— In this paper, we present a novel boosted robot vision control algorithm. The method utilizes on-line boosting to produce a strong vision-based robot control starting from two ...
A. H. Abdul Hafez, Enric Cervera, C. V. Jawahar