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IROS
2008
IEEE
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Avoiding negative depth in inverse depth bearing-only SLAM
Abstract— In this paper we consider ways to alleviate negative estimated depth for the inverse depth parameterisation of bearing-only SLAM. This problem, which can arise even if ...
Martin P. Parsley, Simon J. Julier
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Deep sea underwater robotic exploration in the ice-covered Arctic ocean with AUVs
Abstract— The Arctic seafloor remains one of the last unexplored areas on Earth. Exploration of this unique environment using standard remotely operated oceanographic tools has ...
Clayton Kunz, Chris Murphy, Richard Camilli, Hanum...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Using reference objects to improve vision-based bearing measurements
— Robots perceiving its environment using cameras usually need a good representation of how the camera is aligned to the body and how the camera is rotated relative to the ground...
Heinrich Mellmann, Matthias Jüngel, Michael S...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Cross-country obstacle detection: Space-variant resolution and outliers removal
Abstract— The unstructured nature of cross-country environments poses a great deal of challenges to obstacle detection algorithms. This paper presents an algorithm able to perfor...
Pedro Santana, Paulo Santos, Luís Correia, ...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Visual servoing from two special compounds of features using a spherical projection model
— This paper is concerned with the use of a spherical projection model to design optimal visual features for visual servoing. Here two special targets are considered: a sphere ma...
Romeo Tatsambon Fomena, François Chaumette
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Consideration of weight discriminative powers for various weight changes using a haptic device
—This paper discusses human weight perception using a haptic device. The objective of this study is to reveal the characteristics in human force sensations, which are difficult t...
Masayuki Hara, Naoya Ashitaka, N. Tambo, Jian Huan...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Kinodynamic motion planning with hardware demonstrations
Abstract— This paper provides proof-of-concept that stateof-the-art sampling-based motion planners that are tightly integrated with a physics-based simulator can compute paths th...
Ioan Alexandru Sucan, Jonathan F. Kruse, Mark Yim,...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Homing in scale space
— Local visual homing is the process of determining the direction of movement required to return an agent to a goal location by comparing the current image with an image taken at...
David Churchill, Andrew Vardy
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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A line-based obstacle avoidance technique for dexterous manipulator operations
Title of thesis: A LINE-BASED OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE TECHNIQUE FOR DEXTEROUS MANIPULATOR OPERATIONS Nicholas Anthony Scott Master of Science, 2007 Thesis directed by: Craig Carignan D...
Nicholas A. Scott, Craig R. Carignan
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Surface based wireless power transmission and bidirectional communication for autonomous robot swarms
—We introduce an inexpensive, low complexity power surface system capable of simultaneously providing wireless power and bidirectional communication from a surface to multiple mo...
Travis Deyle, Matthew S. Reynolds