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ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Energy Saving Target Tracking Using Mobile Sensor Networks
Abstract Minimizing the energy consumption of target tracking using a mobile sensor network is proved to be NPcomplete. Based on proximity graph, an approximately optimal solution ...
Yingying Li, Yun-Hui Liu
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Probabilistic Appearance Based Navigation and Loop Closing
— This paper describes a probabilistic framework for navigation using only appearance data. By learning a generative model of appearance, we can compute not only the similarity o...
Mark Cummins, Paul M. Newman
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Development and Application of a New Steady-Hand Manipulator for Retinal Surgery
— This paper describes the development and initial testing of a new and optimized version of a steady-hand manipulator for retinal microsurgery. In the steady-hand paradigm, the ...
Ben Mitchell, John Koo, Iulian Iordachita, Peter K...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Homography Based Kalman Filter for Mosaic Building. Applications to UAV position estimation
— This paper presents a probabilistic framework where uncertainties can be considered in the mosaic building process. It is shown how can be used as an environment representation...
Fernando Caballero, Luis Merino, Joaquin Ferruz, A...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Improvement of the Odometry Accuracy of a Crawler Vehicle with Consideration of Slippage
Abstract— Crawler mechanisms have the advantage of stable navigation on uneven terrain; as a result, such mechanisms have been adopted for many types of locomotion of outdoor rob...
Keiji Nagatani, Daisuke Endo, Kazuya Yoshida
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Design and Theoretical Evaluation of Micro-Surgical Manipulators for Orbital Manipulation and Intraocular Dexterity
—This paper addresses the design considerations and dexterity evaluation of a novel hybrid two-armed micro-surgical slave robot equipped with intraocular dexterity devices. A uni...
Wei Wei, Roger E. Goldman, Nabil Simaan, Howard F....
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Dynamic Stable Manipulation via Soft-fingered Hand
Takahiro Inoue, Shinichi Hirai
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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A UPF-UKF Framework For SLAM
— In this paper we propose a SLAM framework which is based on an algorithm that combines an Unscented Particle Filter (UPF) and Unscented Kalman Filters (UKFs). A UPF is used to ...
Xiang Wang, Hong Zhang
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Generating Traffic Statistical Profiles Using Unmanned Helicopter-Based Video Data
: Small unmanned vertical take off and landing vehicles are used to provide the eye-in-the-sky alternative to monitoring and regulating traffic dynamically. Spatial-temporal visual...
Anuj Puri, Kimon P. Valavanis, Michael Kontitsis
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Sampling-Based Motion Planning With Sensing Uncertainty
Abstract— Sampling-based algorithms have dramatically improved the state of the art in robotic motion planning. However, they make restrictive assumptions that limit their applic...
Brendan Burns, Oliver Brock