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ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Vision-Based Control of a Gough-Stewart Parallel Mechanism using Legs Observation
Abstract— This paper presents a novel approach for visionbased control of the end-effector of parallel mechanisms. It is based on the metrological redundancy paradigm, which simp...
Nicolas Andreff, Arnaud Marchadier, Philippe Marti...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Swimming and Crawling with an Amphibious Snake Robot
— We present AmphiBot I, an amphibious snake robot capable of crawling and swimming. Experiments have been carried out to characterize how the speed of locomotion depends on the ...
Alessandro Crespi, André Badertscher, Andr&...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Flocking with Obstacle Avoidance: A New Distributed Coordination Algorithm Based on Voronoi Partitions
— A new distributed coordination algorithm for multi-vehicle systems is presented in this paper. The algorithm combines a particular choice of navigation function with Voronoi pa...
Magnus Lindhé, Petter Ögren, Karl Henr...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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The vSLAM Algorithm for Robust Localization and Mapping
— This paper presents the Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (vSLAMTM ) algorithm, a novel algorithm for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). The algorithm is ...
Niklas Karlsson, Enrico Di Bernardo, James P. Ostr...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Interactive Teaching of a Mobile Robot
— Personal service robots are expected to help people in their everyday life in the near future. Such robots must be able to not only move around but also perform various operati...
Jun Miura, Koji Iwase, Yoshiaki Shirai
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Goal-Directed Imitation in a Humanoid Robot
Abstract— Our work aims at developing a robust discriminant controller for robot programming by demonstration. It addresses two core issues of imitation learning, namely “what to...
Sylvain Calinon, Florent Guenter, Aude Billard
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Pattern Generation of Biped Walking Constrained on Parametric Surface
— This paper describes a generation method for spatially natural biped walking. By limiting the COG (Center of Gravity) motion space to a sculptured surface, the degree of freedo...
Mitsuharu Morisawa, Shuuji Kajita, Kenji Kaneko, K...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Stable Pushing of Assemblies
— This paper presents a method to determine whether an assembly of planar parts will stay assembled as it is pushed over a support surface. For a given pushing motion, an assembl...
Jay Bernheisel, Kevin M. Lynch
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Path Planning for Variable Resolution Minimal-Energy Curves of Constant Length
— We present a new approach to path planning for flexible wires. We introduce a method for computing stable configurations of a wire subject to manipulation constraints. These ...
Mark Moll, Lydia E. Kavraki
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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SLAM-Loop Closing with Visually Salient Features
Paul M. Newman, Kin Leong Ho