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ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Aerodynamics of dragonfly flight and robotic design
—A pair of dynamically scaled robotic dragonfly model wings was developed to investigate the aerodynamic effect of wing-wing interaction in dragonfly flight. Instantaneous aerody...
Zheng Hu, Raymond McCauley, Steve Schaeffer, Xinya...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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SLAM in large indoor environments with low-cost, noisy, and sparse sonars
— Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a well-studied problem in mobile robotics. However, the majority of the proposed techniques for SLAM rely on the use of accurate...
Teddy N. Yap Jr., Christian R. Shelton
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Robust servo-control for underwater robots using banks of visual filters
—We present an application of machine learning to the semi-automatic synthesis of robust servo-trackers for underwater robotics. In particular, we investigate an approach based o...
Junaed Sattar, Gregory Dudek
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Continuous vocal imitation with self-organized vowel spaces in Recurrent Neural Network
Abstract— A continuous vocal imitation system was developed using a computational model that explains the process of phoneme acquisition by infants. Human infants perceive speech...
Hisashi Kanda, Tetsuya Ogata, Toru Takahashi, Kazu...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Flow separation for fast and robust stereo odometry
— Separating sparse flow provides fast and robust stereo visual odometry that deals with nearly degenerate situations that often arise in practical applications. We make use of ...
Michael Kaess, Kai Ni, Frank Dellaert
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Probabilistic estimation of Multi-Level terrain maps
— Recent research has shown that robots can model their world with Multi-Level (ML) surface maps, which utilize ‘patches’ in a 2D grid space to represent various environment ...
Cesar Rivadeneyra, Isaac Miller, Jonathan R. Schoe...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Vision-based guidance and control of a hovering vehicle in unknown, GPS-denied environments
— This paper describes the system architecture and core algorithms for a quadrotor helicopter that uses vision data to navigate an unknown, indoor, GPS-denied environment. Withou...
Spencer Ahrens, Daniel Levine, Gregory Andrews, Jo...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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I-Bug: An intensity-based bug algorithm
— This paper introduces a sensor-based planning algorithm that uses less sensing information than any others within the family of bug algorithms. The robot is unable to access pr...
Kamilah Taylor, Steven M. LaValle
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Thermally constrained motor operation for a climbing robot
Abstract— Climbing robots are especially susceptible to thermal overload during normal operation, due to the need to oppose gravity and to frequently apply internal forces for cl...
Salomon Trujillo, Mark R. Cutkosky