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ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Towards locally computable polynomial navigation functions for convex obstacle workspaces
— In this paper we present a polynomial Navigation Function (NF) for a sphere world that can be constructed almost locally, with partial knowledge of the environment. The present...
Grigoris Lionis, Xanthi Papageorgiou, Kostas J. Ky...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Informed visual search: Combining attention and object recognition
Abstract— This paper studies the sequential object recognition problem faced by a mobile robot searching for specific objects within a cluttered environment. In contrast to curr...
Per-Erik Forssén, David Meger, Kevin Lai, S...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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A pure probabilistic approach to range-only SLAM
— Range-Only SLAM represents a difficult problem due to the inherent ambiguity of localizing either the robot or the beacons from distance measurements only. Most previous appro...
Jose-Luis Blanco, Javier Gonzalez, Juan-Antonio Fe...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Toward a multi-disciplinary model for bio-robotic systems
Abstract— The design of robotic systems involves contributions from several areas of science and engineering. Electrical, mechanical and software components must be integrated to...
Richard Primerano, David Wilkie, William Regli
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Exact state and covariance sub-matrix recovery for submap based sparse EIF SLAM algorithm
— This paper provides a novel state vector and covariance sub-matrix recovery algorithm for a recently developed submap based exactly sparse Extended Information Filter (EIF) SLA...
Shoudong Huang, Zhan Wang, Gamini Dissanayake
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Visual servoing based on Gaussian mixture models
— In this paper we present a novel approach to robust visual servoing. This method removes the feature tracking step from a typical visual servoing algorithm. We do not need corr...
A. H. Abdul Hafez, Supreeth Achar, C. V. Jawahar
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Negative information and line observations for Monte Carlo localization
— Localization is a very important problem in robotics and is critical to many tasks performed on a mobile robot. In order to localize well in environments with few landmarks, a ...
Todd Hester, Peter Stone
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Basketball robot: Ball-On-Plate with pure haptic information
— Building a basketball robot is a recently launched project at the Institute of Automatic Control Engineering (LSR) for investigating fast manipulation with non-negligible dynam...
Kwang-Kyu Lee, Georg Batz, Dirk Wollherr
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Detecting and tracking of 3D face pose for human-robot interaction
— Faces play a major role in many HCI systems, because they represent a rich source of information. Being able to estimate the 3D face pose in real-time, we can get a clue about ...
Fadi Dornaika, Bogdan Raducanu
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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A deliberative architecture for AUV control
Conor McGann, Frederic Py, Kanna Rajan, Hans Thoma...