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ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Online trajectory generation in an amphibious snake robot using a lamprey-like central pattern generator model
— This article presents a control architecture for controlling the locomotion of an amphibious snake/lamprey robot capable of swimming and serpentine locomotion. The control arch...
Auke Jan Ijspeert, Alessandro Crespi
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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A Policy for Open-Loop Attenuation of Disturbance Effects Caused by Uncertain Ground Properties in Running
— Outside of the laboratory, accurate models of ground impact dynamics are either difficult or impossible to obtain. Instead, a rigid ground model is often used in gait and cont...
Jonathan W. Hurst, Benjamin Morris, Joel E. Chestn...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Planning with Uncertainty in Position Using High-Resolution Maps
— We present a novel approach to mobile robot navigation that enables navigation in outdoor environments without GPS. The approach uses a path planner that calculates optimal pat...
Juan Pablo Gonzalez, Anthony Stentz
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Robopal: Modeling Role Transitions in Human-Robot Interaction
— We have developed a new communication robot, Robopal, which is an indoor/outdoor robot for use in humanrobot interaction research in the context of daily life. Robopal’s inte...
Dylan F. Glas, Takahiro Miyashita, Hiroshi Ishigur...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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A Stable Vision-Based Control Scheme for Nonholonomic Vehicles to Keep a Landmark in the Field of View
— Control of wheeled vehicles is a difficult problem due to nonholonomic constraints. This problem is compounded by sensor limitations. A previously developed control scheme for...
Nicholas R. Gans, Seth Hutchinson
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Planar batting under shape, pose, and impact uncertainty
— This paper explores the planning and control of a manipulation task accomplished in conditions of high uncertainty. Statistical techniques, like particle filters, provide a fr...
Jiaxin L. Fu, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Nancy S. Po...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance in uncertain environment combining PVOs and Occupancy Grid
— Most of present work for autonomous navigation in dynamic environment doesn’t take into account the dynamics of the obstacles or the limits of the perception system. To face ...
Chiara Fulgenzi, Anne Spalanzani, Christian Laugie...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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A Gas-Actuated Anthropomorphic Transhumeral Prosthesis
— This paper presents the design of an anthropomorphic 21 degree-of-freedom, 9 degree-of-actuation arm prosthesis for use by transhumeral amputees. The design leverages the power...
Kevin Fite, Thomas J. Withrow, Keith W. Wait, Mich...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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A visual bag of words method for interactive qualitative localization and mapping
— Localization for low cost humanoid or animal-like personal robots has to rely on cheap sensors and has to be robust to user manipulations of the robot. We present a visual loca...
David Filliat
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Reality-Based Haptic Force Models of Buttons and Switches
—Accurate models of the feel of physical objects are essential to improving the realism of haptic simulations. This paper presents a method for automatically obtaining experiment...
Mark B. Colton, John M. Hollerbach