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RAM
2008
IEEE
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Reactive Gaze Control for Natural Human-Robot Interactions
Abstract—Nonverbal behavior during human-human close encounters is critical to the accomplishment of natural interaction. For this reason, humanoid robots trying to achieve natur...
Yasser F. O. Mohammad, Toyoaki Nishida
RAM
2008
IEEE
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Middleware for Robotics: A Survey
—The field of robotics relies heavily on various technologies such as mechatronics, computing systems, and wireless communication. Given the fast growing technological progress i...
Nader Mohamed, Jameela Al-Jaroodi, Imad Jawhar
IROS
2008
IEEE
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An optical external localization system and applications to indoor tracking
— Precise robot positioning is important for many applications in indoor environments. Current solutions to the indoor localization problem are either both unreliable and inaccur...
Srujan Linga, Binayak Roy, H. Harry Asada, Daniela...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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First results on the design of high speed parallel robots in presence of uncertainty
Nacim Ramdani, Marc Gouttefarde, François P...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Multimodal sensor fusion for attitude estimation of micromechanical flying insects: A geometric approach
— In this paper, we study sensor fusion for the attitude estimation of Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs), in particular mechanical flying insects. First, following a geometric approa...
Domenico Campolo, Luca Schenato, Lijuan Pi, Xinyan...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Overcoming sensor noise for low-tolerance autonomous assembly
Abstract— The capability to assemble structures is fundamental to the use of robotics in precursor missions in orbit and on planetary surfaces. We have performed autonomous assem...
Brennan Sellner, Frederik W. Heger, Laura M. Hiatt...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Action planner of hybrid leg-wheel robots for lunar and planetary exploration
— In this paper, we propose an action planning algorithm and its evaluation method based on dynamic simulation for a novel type of hybrid leg-wheel rover for planetary exploratio...
Eric Rohmer, Giulio Reina, Genya Ishigami, Keiji N...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Centroidal Momentum Matrix of a humanoid robot: Structure and properties
— The centroidal momentum of a humanoid robot is the sum of the individual link momenta, after projecting each to the robot’s Center of Mass (CoM). Centroidal momentum is a lin...
David E. Orin, Ambarish Goswami
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Approximating information content for active sensing tasks using the unscented transform
— This paper presents an approach to approximate information content for active sensing tasks. The Unscented Transform is used to represent probability distributions by a set of ...
Eric W. Frew