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ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Effects of compliant ankles on bipedal locomotion
— The influence of ankle compliance on bipedal robot locomotion is investigated in this paper. The focus is on reduction of energy consumption. The concept of hybrid zero dynami...
Thomas Schauss, Michael Scheint, Marion Sobotka, W...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Stable dynamic walking of a quadruped via phase modulations against small disturbances
— It is generally accepted that locomotion in animals is based on a trade-off between energy consumption and stability. However, this trade-off is the result of the interaction b...
Christophe Maufroy, Hiroshi Kimura, Kunikatsu Taka...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Cardiolock2: Parallel singularities for the design of an active heart stabilizer
— In this paper, the design of a new active cardiac stabilizer, Cardiolock2, is presented. Following the proof of concept Cardiolock [7], this device allows an active stabilizati...
Wael Bachta, Pierre Renaud, Edouard Laroche, Jacqu...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Coordination of multiple non-holonomic agents with input constraints
Abstract— In this paper we present a multi-agent coordination algorithm suitable for systems with aircraft-like kinematic constraints. A model of a system of input-constrained no...
Apollo S. Oikonomopoulos, Savvas G. Loizou, Kostas...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Path diversity is only part of the problem
— The goal of motion planning is to find a feasible path that connects two positions and is free from collision with obstacles. Path sets are a robust approach to this problem i...
Ross A. Knepper, Matthew T. Mason
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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A high-speed multi-GPU implementation of bottom-up attention using CUDA
— In this paper a novel implementation of the saliency map model on a multi-GPU platform using CUDA technology is presented. The saliency map model is a wellknown computational m...
Tingting Xu, Thomas Pototschnig, Kolja Kühnle...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Interactive learning of the acoustic properties of household objects
— Human beings can perceive object properties such as size, weight, and material type based solely on the sounds that the objects make when an action is performed on them. In ord...
Jivko Sinapov, Mark Wiemer, Alexander Stoytchev
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Comparison of surface normal estimation methods for range sensing applications
— As mobile robotics is gradually moving towards a level of semantic environment understanding, robust 3D object recognition plays an increasingly important role. One of the most...
Klaas Klasing, Daniel Althoff, Dirk Wollherr, Mart...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Path planning in 1000+ dimensions using a task-space Voronoi bias
— The reduction of the kinematics and/or dynamics of a high-DOF robotic manipulator to a low-dimension “task space” has proven to be an invaluable tool for designing feedback...
Alexander C. Shkolnik, Russ Tedrake
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Climbing rough vertical surfaces with hierarchical directional adhesion
— Prior research in biology and mechanics has shown the importance of hierarchy to the performance of dry adhesive systems on rough surfaces. The gecko utilizes several levels of...
Alan T. Asbeck, Sanjay Dastoor, Aaron Parness, Lau...