— Efficient, reliable and flexible handling is still very challenging in micromanipulation and micro-assembly. In this paper, we propose an original thermally actuated gripper b...
— Humanoid robots as assistance or educational robots is an important research topic in the field of robotics. Especially the communication of those robots with a human operator...
— This paper focuses on leader-follower formations of mobile robots equipped with panoramic cameras and extend earlier works in the literature addressing both the visionbased loc...
Gian Luca Mariottini, Fabio Morbidi, Domenico Prat...
— In order to assist surgeons during surgery on moving organs, e.g. minimally invasive beating heart bypass surgery, a master-slave system which synchronizes surgical instruments...
Thomas Bader, Alexander Wiedemann, Kathrin Roberts...
— This paper describes realtime and robust tracking of a planar motion target by matched filter implemented on the CMOS+FPGA vision system. It is required to obtain positional a...
— This paper presents the iRobot corporation’s Roomba vacuum as a low-cost resource for robotics research and education. Sensor and actuation models for unmodified Roombas are...
— This paper reports recent experimental results in the development and deployment of a synchronous-clock acoustic navigation system suitable for the simultaneous navigation of m...
Ryan Eustice, Louis L. Whitcomb, Hanumant Singh, M...
— This paper presents a vision-based approach to SLAM in large-scale environments with minimal sensing and computational requirements. The approach is based on a graphical repres...
Henrik Andreasson, Tom Duckett, Achim J. Lilientha...