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2010
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Coordinated Control of Space Robot Teams for the On-Orbit Construction of Large Flexible Space Structures
Teams of autonomous space robots are needed for future space missions such as the construction of large solar power stations and large space telescopes in earth orbit. This work fo...
Peggy Boning, Steven Dubowsky
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2010
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Novel Energy Transfer Mechanism in a Running Quadruped Robot with One Actuator per Leg
In this work we develop a novel method, or mechanism, of energy transfer in a quadruped running robot. The robot possesses only one actuator per leg, for lower weight and greater ...
Nicholas Cherouvim, Evangelos Papadopoulos
AR
2007
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Stability of autonomous vehicle path tracking with pure delays in the control loop
This paper presents a new method to analyze the stability of a general class of mobile robot path tracking algorithms taking into account explicitly the computation and communicat...
Guillermo Heredia, Aníbal Ollero
AR
2007
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A 10-gram vision-based flying robot
We aim at developing ultralight autonomous microflyers capable of freely flying within houses or small built environments while avoiding collisions. Our latest prototype is a ...
Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Adam Klaptocz, Antoine B...
AR
2007
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Feeling a rigid virtual world through an impulsive haptic display
—In this paper the first haptic display capable of applying a true impulse to the operator is presented. The applied impulse results in an immediate change of the user’s momen...
Emmanuel B. Vander Poorten, Yasuyoshi Yokokohji
AR
2007
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Experience-based imitation using RNNPB
Abstract— Robot imitation is a useful and promising alternative to robot programming. Robot imitation involves two crucial issues. The first is how a robot can imitate a human w...
Ryunosuke Yokoya, Tetsuya Ogata, Jun Tani, Kazunor...
AR
2007
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Action recognition and understanding through motor primitives
In robotics, recognition of human activity has been used extensively for robot task learning through imitation and demonstration. However, there has not been much work on modeling...
Isabel Serrano Vicente, Ville Kyrki, Danica Kragic...
AR
2007
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Reinforcement learning of a continuous motor sequence with hidden states
—Reinforcement learning is the scheme for unsupervised learning in which robots are expected to acquire behavior skills through self-explorations based on reward signals. There a...
Hiroaki Arie, Tetsuya Ogata, Jun Tani, Shigeki Sug...
AR
2007
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A mechatronic platform for early diagnosis of neurodevelopmental disorders
Neurodevelopmental Engineering is a new interdisciplinary research area at the intersection of developmental neuroscience and bioengineering, mainly concerned with quantitative an...
Domenico Campolo, Cecilia Laschi, Flavio Keller, E...