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ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Place recognition-based fixed-lag smoothing for environments with unreliable GPS
— Pose estimation of outdoor robots presents some distinct challenges due to the various uncertainties in the robot sensing and action. In particular, global positioning sensors ...
Roozbeh Mottaghi, Michael Kaess, Ananth Ranganatha...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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A vision-based computed torque control for parallel kinematic machines
— In this paper, a novel approach for parallel kinematic machine control relying on a fast exteroceptive measure is implemented and validated on the Orthoglide robot. This approa...
Flavien Paccot, Philippe Lemoine, Nicolas Andreff,...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Distributed, dynamic, and autonomous reconfiguration planning for chain-type self-reconfigurable robots
— This paper presents a dynamic and distributed reconfiguration planning algorithm for chain-type selfreconfigurable robots, by which a robot can autonomously self-reconfigure fr...
Feili Hou, Wei-Min Shen
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Quasiperiodic predictive filtering for robot-assisted beating heart surgery
— Beating heart procedures promise significant health benefits to patients but the fast motion of the heart poses a serious challenge to the surgeon. Robotic motion synchroniza...
Shelten G. Yuen, Paul M. Novotny, Robert D. Howe
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Image moments-based ultrasound visual servoing
— A new visual servoing method based on B-mode ultrasound images is proposed to automatically control the motion of a 2D ultrasound probe held by a medical robot in order to reac...
Rafik Mebarki, Alexandre Krupa, François Ch...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Generation of energy efficient trajectories for NIMS3D, a three-dimensional cabled robot
Per Henrik Borgstrom, Nils Peter Borgstrom, Michae...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Modeling assembled-MEMS microrobots for wireless magnetic control
— Capitalizing on advances in CMOS and MEMS technologies, microrobots have the potential to dramatically change many aspects of medicine by navigating bodily fluids to perform t...
Zoltán Nagy, Olgaç Ergeneman, Jake J...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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A miniature 7g jumping robot
Abstract— Jumping can be a very efficient mode of locomotion for small robots to overcome large obstacles and travel in natural, rough terrain. In this paper we present the deve...
Mirko Kovac, Martin Fuchs, André Guignard, ...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Inverse Kinematics without matrix inversion
– This paper presents a new singularity robust and computationally efficient method for solving the inverse kinematics (IK) problem. In this method, the transformation from Carte...
Alexandre N. Pechev
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Tracking interacting targets with laser scanner via on-line supervised learning
— Successful multi-target tracking requires locating the targets and labeling their identities. For the laser based tracking system, the latter becomes significantly more challen...
Xuan Song, Jinshi Cui, Xulei Wang, Huijing Zhao, H...