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IROS
2009
IEEE
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An empirical study of the performance of active self-assembly
Thanaphon Tangchoopong, Aristides A. G. Requicha
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Microbubble generation using a syringe pump
The context of this paper is to study the use of capillary microgripper in submerged mediums which requires the use of microbubbles. This paper presents a model and experimentatio...
Cyrille Lenders, Michaël Gauthier, Pierre Lam...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Stress-driven MEMS assembly + electrostatic forces = 1mm diameter robot
— As the size of the modules in a self-reconfiguring modular robotic system shrinks and the number of modules increases, the flexibility of the system as a whole increases. In ...
Mustafa Emre Karagozler, Seth Copen Goldstein, Jam...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Non-cubic occupied voxel lists for robot maps
— An alternative to the conventional quantization for occupied voxel lists in both 2D and 3D is presented. The performance metrics of the hexagonal lattice in 2D and the face cen...
Julian Ryde, Michael Brünig
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Using petri nets to specify and execute missions for autonomous underwater vehicles
Abstract— This paper presents the design and implementation of a Mission Control System (MCS) for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) based on Petri nets. In the proposed appr...
Narcís Palomeras, Pere Ridao, Marc Carreras...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Human-robot team navigation in visually complex environments
—Current fully autonomous robots are unable to navigate effectively in visually complex environments due to limitations in sensing and cognition. Full teleoperation using current...
John Carff, Matthew Johnson, Eman El-Sheikh, Jerry...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Fast and robust photomapping with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
— A fast and robust method for visual odometry based on the Fourier-Mellin Invariant (FMI) descriptor is presented. It extends previous FMI based approaches in two ways. First, a...
Heikow Bülow, Andreas Birk
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Visual steering of UAV in unknown environments
— In this paper, we propose a novel approach for the visual navigation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). In contrast to most available methods, a single perspective camera is us...
Chunrong Yuan, Fabian Recktenwald, Hanspeter A. Ma...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Path planning for data assimilation in mobile environmental monitoring systems
— By combining a low-order model of forecast errors, the extended Kalman filter, and classical continuous optimization, we develop an integrated methodology for planning mobile ...
Franz S. Hover
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Biorobotic fins for investigations of fish locomotion
Abstract—Experimental analyses of propulsion in freelyswimming fishes have led to the development of self-propelling pectoral and caudal fin robotic devices. These biorobotic mod...
James L. Tangorra, Christopher J. Esposito, George...