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2008
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A Minimalistic Approach to Appearance-Based Visual SLAM
This paper presents a vision-based approach to SLAM in indoor / outdoor environments with minimalistic sensing and computational requirements. The approach is based on a graph repr...
Henrik Andreasson, Tom Duckett, Achim J. Lilientha...
TROB
2008
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Robot-to-Robot Relative Pose Estimation From Range Measurements
In this paper, we address the problem of determining the 2D relative pose of pairs of communicating robots from (i) robot-to-robot distance measurements and (ii) displacement estim...
Xun S. Zhou, Stergios I. Roumeliotis
TROB
2008
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A Control Framework to Generate Nonenergy-Storing Virtual Fixtures: Use of Simulated Plasticity
Some recent studies have addressed a class of human
Ryo Kikuuwe, Naoyuki Takesue, Hideo Fujimoto
TROB
2008
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Catadioptric Visual Servoing From 3-D Straight Lines
In this paper, we consider the problem of controlling a 6 DOF holonomic robot and a nonholonomic mobile robot from the projection of 3-D straight lines in the image plane of centra...
Hicham Hadj-Abdelkader, Youcef Mezouar, Philippe M...
TROB
2008
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Physical Path Planning Using a Pervasive Embedded Network
Abstract--We evaluate a technique that uses an embedded network deployed pervasively throughout an environment to aid robots in navigation. The embedded nodes do not know their abs...
Keith J. O'Hara, Daniel B. Walker, Tucker R. Balch
TROB
2008
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Improving the Performance of Sampling-Based Motion Planning With Symmetry-Based Gap Reduction
Sampling-based nonholonomic and kinodynamic planning iteratively constructs solutions with sampled controls. A constructed trajectory is returned as an acceptable solution if its &...
Peng Cheng, Emilio Frazzoli, Steven M. LaValle
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2008
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Analysis of Humanoid Appearances in Human-Robot Interaction
- It is important to identify how much the appearance of a humanoid robot affects human behaviors toward it. We compared participants' impressions of and behaviors toward two ...
Takayuki Kanda, Takahiro Miyashita, Taku Osada, Yu...
TROB
2008
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Visual Servoing Based on Structure From Controlled Motion or on Robust Statistics
Abstract--This paper focuses on the way to achieve accurate visual servoing tasks when the shape of the object being observed as well as the desired image are unknown. More precise...
Christophe Collewet, François Chaumette
TROB
2008
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Online Optimization of Swimming and Crawling in an Amphibious Snake Robot
An important problem in the control of locomotion of robots with multiple degrees of freedom (e.g., biomimetic robots) is to adapt the locomotor patterns to the properties of the e...
Alessandro Crespi, Auke Jan Ijspeert
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2008
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A Fundamental Tradeoff Between Performance and Sensitivity Within Haptic Rendering
In this paper we show that for haptic rendering using position feedback, the structure of the feedback loop imposes a fundamental tradeoff between accurate rendering of virtual env...
Paul G. Griffiths, R. Brent Gillespie, James S. Fr...