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ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Autonomous image-based exploration for mobile robot navigation
— Image-based navigation paradigms have recently emerged as an interesting alternative to conventional modelbased methods in mobile robotics. In this paper, we augment the existi...
D. Santosh, Supreeth Achar, C. V. Jawahar
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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A body joint improves vertical to horizontal transitions of a wall-climbing robot
— Several recently-designed robots are able to scale steep surfaces using animal-inspired strategies for foot attachment and leg kinematics. These designs could be valuable for r...
Kathryn A. Daltorio, Timothy C. Witushynsky, Grego...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Pareto optimal multi-robot coordination with acceleration constraints
— We consider a collection of robots sharing a common environment, each robot constrained to move on a roadmap in its configuration space. To program optimal collision-free moti...
Jae Bum Jung, Robert Christ
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Ultrasonic relative positioning for multi-robot systems
— Coordination of a group of mobile robots is facilitated when they are able to determine their positions relative to each other. Instead of using an absolute positioning approac...
Frédéric Rivard, Jonathan Bisson, Fr...
DIGITEL
2008
IEEE
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Using Humanoid Robots as Instructional Media in Elementary Language Education
As robot technologies have developed rapidly, many researchers have tried to use robots to support education. Studies have shown that robots can help students develop problem-solv...
Gwo-Dong Chen, Chih-Wei Chang
CDC
2008
IEEE
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HZD-based control of a five-link underactuated 3D bipedal robot
Abstract— This paper presents a within-stride feedback controller that achieves an exponentially stable, periodic, and fast walking gait for a 3D bipedal robot consisting of a to...
Jessy W. Grizzle, Christine Chevallereau, Ching-Lo...
ROBOCUP
2009
Springer
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Coordinated Action in a Heterogeneous Rescue Team
In this paper we describe a new approach to make use of a heterogeneous robot team for the RoboCup Rescue League Virtual Robot competition. We will demonstrate coordinated action b...
Fares Alnajar, Hanne Nijhuis, Arnoud Visser
EDUTAINMENT
2009
Springer
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Exploring Children's Perceptions of the Robots
In order to introduce robots into education field appropriately, it is necessary to consider the children‘s perceptions of the robots. In this study, the researchers developed th...
Yi-Chun Lin, Tzu-Chien Liu, Maiga Chang, Shiau-Pin...
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Of robot ants and elephants
Investigations of multi-robot systems often make implicit assumptions concerning the computational capabilities of the robots. Despite the lack of explicit attention to the comput...
Asaf Shiloni, Noa Agmon, Gal A. Kaminka
ALGOSENSORS
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Self-stabilizing Deterministic Gathering
Abstract. In this paper, we investigate the possibility to deterministically solve the gathering problem (GP) with weak robots (anonymous, autonomous, disoriented, deaf and dumb, a...
Yoann Dieudonné, Franck Petit