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ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Vision based shape estimation for continuum robots
Abstract– The investigation of continuum robots has become an area of considerable interest in the last several years. Unlike conventional robotic manipulators which bend in disc...
Michael W. Hannan, Ian D. Walker
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Practical Kinematics for Real-time Implementation of Continuum Robots
Abstract - This paper introduces new analyses and algorithms which are essential for the practical implementation of continuous backbone continuum robots. Actuator length limits st...
Bryan A. Jones, William McMahan, Ian D. Walker
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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13 years 2 months ago
Design, simulation and evaluation of kinematic alternatives for Insertable Robotic Effectors Platforms in Single Port Access Sur
This paper presents the task specifications for designing a novel Insertable Robotic Effectors Platform (IREP) with integrated stereo vision and surgical intervention tools for Sin...
Jienan Ding, Kai Xu 0005, Roger E. Goldman, Peter ...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Using Robust Estimation for Visual Servoing Based on Dynamic Vision
— The aim of this article is to achieve accurate visual servoing tasks when the shape of the object being observed as well as the final image are unknown. More precisely, we wan...
Christophe Collewet, François Chaumette
BMVC
1998
13 years 6 months ago
Vision Based Person Tracking with a Mobile Robot
We address the problem of detecting and tracking people with a mobile robot. The need for following a person with a mobile robot arises in many different service robotic applicati...
Christian Schlegel, Jörg Illmann, Heiko Jaber...