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ICRA
2007
IEEE
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A Submerged Freeze Microgripper for Micromanipulations
— 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...
Beatriz Lopez Walle, Michaël Gauthier, Nicola...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Emotional Architecture for the Humanoid Robot Head ROMAN
— 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...
Jochen Hirth, Norbert Schmitz, Karsten Berns
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Leader-Follower Formations: Uncalibrated Vision-Based Localization and Control
— 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...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Model-based Motion Estimation of Elastic Surfaces for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
— 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...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Development of a multimode navigation system for an assistive robotics project
Alessandra Cherubini, Giuseppe Oriolo, Francesco M...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Realtime and Robust Motion Tracking by Matched Filter on CMOS+FPGA Vision System
— 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...
Kazuhiro Shimizu, Shinichi Hirai
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Evaluating the Roomba: A low-cost, ubiquitous platform for robotics research and education
— 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...
Ben Tribelhorn, Zachary Dodds
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Experimental Results in Synchronous-Clock One-Way-Travel-Time Acoustic Navigation for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
— 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...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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New Foot System Adaptable to Convex and Concave Surface
Kenji Hashimoto, Yusuke Sugahara, Akihiro Hayashi,...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Mini-SLAM: Minimalistic Visual SLAM in Large-Scale Environments Based on a New Interpretation of Image Similarity
— 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...