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IJRR
2010
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12 years 11 months ago
Extracting Object Contours with the Sweep of a Robotic Whisker Using Torque Information
Several recent studies have investigated the problem of object feature extraction with artificial whiskers. Many of these studies have used an approach in which the whisker is rot...
Joseph H. Solomon, Mitra J. Z. Hartmann
ICRA
2005
IEEE
131views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
Multifunctional Whisker Arrays for Distance Detection, Terrain Mapping, and Object Feature Extraction
: Several species of animals use whiskers to accurately navigate and explore objects in the absence of vision. We have developed inexpensive arrays of artificial whiskers based on ...
Aimee Schultz, Joseph Solomon, Michael A. Peshkin,...
3DPVT
2006
IEEE
247views Visualization» more  3DPVT 2006»
13 years 8 months ago
Contour-Based Object Detection in Range Images
This paper presents a novel object recognition approach based on range images. Due to its insensitivity to illumination, range data is well suited for reliable silhouette extracti...
Stefan Stiene, Kai Lingemann, Andreas Nüchter...
FGCN
2008
IEEE
131views Communications» more  FGCN 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
Object Tracking of Mobile Robot Using Moving Color and Shape Information for the Aged Walking
A mobile robot with various types of sensors via ubiquitous networks is introduced. We designed a mobile robot composed of TCP/IP network, wireless camera and several sensors in a...
Sanghoon Kim, Sangmu Lee, Seungjong Kim