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ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Improved Monte Carlo localization of autonomous robots through simultaneous estimation of motion model parameters
Abstract— In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in autonomous navigation for lightweight flying robots. With regard to self-localization flying robots have sev...
Jörg Müller 0004, Christoph Gonsior, Wol...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Ball dribbling with an underactuated continuous-time control phase
— Ball dribbling is a central element of basketball. One main challenge for realizing basketball robots is to stabilize periodic motions of the ball. This task is nontrivial due ...
Uwe Mettin, Anton S. Shiriaev, Georg Batz, Dirk Wo...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Two-phased controller for a pair of 2-DOF soft fingertips based on the qualitative relationship between joint angles and object
— We have previously shown that hemispherical soft fingertips are at equilibrium when they are in contact with objects, suggesting that the contact force and flexibility of the...
Yujiro Yamazaki, Takahiro Inoue, Shinichi Hirai
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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MOPED: A scalable and low latency object recognition and pose estimation system
— The latency of a perception system is crucial for a robot performing interactive tasks in dynamic human environments. We present MOPED, a fast and scalable perception system fo...
Manuel Martinez, Alvaro Collet, Siddhartha S. Srin...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Fusion of laser and vision for multiple targets tracking via on-line learning
— Multi-target tracking becomes significantly more challenging when the targets are in close proximity or frequently interact with each other. This paper presents a promising tr...
Xuan Song, Huijing Zhao, Jinshi Cui, Xiaowei Shao,...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Categorizing object-action relations from semantic scene graphs
— In this work we introduce a novel approach for detecting spatiotemporal object-action relations, leading to both, action recognition and object categorization. Semantic scene g...
Eren Erdal Aksoy, Alexey Abramov, Florentin Wö...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Geodesic trajectory generation on learnt skill manifolds
Abstract— Humanoid robots are appealing due to their inherent dexterity. However, these potential benefits may only be realized if the corresponding motion synthesis procedure i...
Ioannis Havoutis, Subramanian Ramamoorthy
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Hands in action: real-time 3D reconstruction of hands in interaction with objects
— This paper presents a method for vision based estimation of the pose of human hands in interaction with objects. Despite the fact that most robotics applications of human hand ...
Javier Romero, Hedvig Kjellström, Danica Krag...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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A robotic module for stochastic fluidic assembly of 3D self-reconfiguring structures
— Stochastic self-reconfiguring robots are modular robots that possess the ability to autonomously change the arrangement of their modules and do so through the use of nondetermi...
Jonas Neubert, Abraham P. Cantwell, Stephane Const...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Blinkered LOST: Restricting sensor field of view can improve scalability in emergent multi-robot trail following
Abstract— We consider the classical task of transporting resources from source to home by a group of autonomous robots. The robots use ant-like trail following to navigate betwee...
S. Abbas Sadat, Richard T. Vaughan