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ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Exploiting redundancy to implement multi-objective behavior
Teams of robots can be redundant with respect to a given task. This redundancy can be exploited to pursue additional objectives during the execution of the task. In this paper, we...
Yuandong Yang, Oliver Brock, Roderic A. Grupen
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Iconic memory-based onmidirectional route panorama navigation
Yasushi Yagi, Kousuke Imai, Masahiko Yachida
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Controlling a marionette with human motion capture data
In this paper, we present a method for controlling a motorized, string-drivenmarionette using motion capture data from human actors. The motion data must be adapted for the marion...
Katsu Yamane, Jessica K. Hodgins, H. Benjamin Brow...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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A computer-aided probing strategy for workpiece localization
This paper presents an optimal planning problem for workpiece measurement. Two sequential optimization algorithms are introduced to find maximum determinant solutions. Then, base...
Zehnhua Xiong, Michael Yu Wang, Zexiang Li
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Biomimetic sensor suite for flight control of a micromechanical flying insect: design and experimental results
—Four prototypes of biomimetic sensors have been designed and implemented for flight control of a robotic flying insect. The ocelli use four photodiodes to detect changes in li...
Wei Chung Wu, Luca Schenato, Robert J. Wood, Ronal...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Microrobotics using composite materials: the micromechanical flying insect thorax
The use of high performance composite materials provides a substantial performance improvement for microrobotics. Such materials have great benefits over common MEMs materials su...
Robert J. Wood, Srinath Avadhanula, M. Menon, Rona...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Bundled carbon nanotubes as electronic circuit and sensing elements
- Bundled multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNT) were successfully and repeatably manipulated by AC electrophoresis to form resistive elements between Au microelectrodes and were dem...
Victor T. S. Wong, Wen J. Li
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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An Extensor Mechanism for an Anatomical Robotic Hand
-- The human finger possesses a structure called the extensor mechanism, a web-like collection of tendinous material that lies on the dorsal side of each finger and connects the co...
David D. Wilkinson, Michael Vande Weghe, Yoky Mats...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Vehicle motion planning using stream functions
– Borrowing a concept from hydrodynamic analysis, this paper presents stream functions which satisfy Laplace’s equation as a local-minima free method for producing potential-...
Stephen Waydo, Richard M. Murray