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ICRA
2010
IEEE
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A robust state estimation method against GNSS outage for unmanned miniature helicopters
Abstract— Most unmanned aerial robots use a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), such as GPS, GLONASS, and Galileo, for their navigation. However, from time to time the GNS...
Tak-Kit Lau, Yun-hui Liu, Kai-wun Lin
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Visual path following on a manifold in unstructured three-dimensional terrain
— This paper describes the design and testing of a technique to enable long-range autonomous navigation using a stereo camera as the only sensor. During a learning phase, the rov...
Paul Timothy Furgale, Timothy D. Barfoot
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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On the global optimum of planar, range-based robot-to-robot relative pose estimation
Abstract— In this paper, we address the problem of determining the relative position and orientation (pose) of two robots navigating in 2D, based on known egomotion and noisy rob...
Nikolas Trawny, Stergios I. Roumeliotis
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Towards passive object on-orbit manipulation by cooperating free-flying robots
——Space exploitation will require efficient techniques for manipulating passive objects on orbit. This work presents a manipulation concept that utilizes both the on-off thruste...
Georgios Rekleitis, Evangelos Papadopoulos
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Fluidic manipulation for scalable stochastic 3D assembly of modular robots
—One of the grand challenges of self-reconfiguring modular robotics is the assembly of a functional system from thousands of components. However, to date, only systems comprised ...
Michael Thomas Tolley, Hod Lipson
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Improving mutual information-based visual servoing
— In a previous paper [3], we proposed a new way to achieve visual servoing. Rather than minimizing the error between the position of two set of geometric features, we proposed t...
Amaury Dame, Éric Marchand
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Multi-robot coordination with periodic connectivity
Abstract— We consider the problem of multi-robot coordination subject to constraints on the configuration. Specifically, we examine the case in which a mobile network of robots...
Geoffrey Hollinger, Sanjiv Singh
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Camera parameters auto-adjusting technique for robust robot vision
— How to make vision system work robustly under dynamic light conditions is still a challenging research focus in computer/robot vision community. In this paper, a novel camera p...
Huimin Lu, Hui Zhang, Shaowu Yang, Zhiqiang Zheng
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Exploiting domain knowledge in planning for uncertain robot systems modeled as POMDPs
Abstract— We propose a planning algorithm that allows usersupplied domain knowledge to be exploited in the synthesis of information feedback policies for systems modeled as parti...
Salvatore Candido, James C. Davidson, Seth Hutchin...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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13 years 4 months ago
A Robotic Sensor Network for monitoring carp in Minnesota lakes
— Robotic Sensor Networks (RSNs) find increasing use in environmental monitoring as RSNs can collect data from obscure, hard-to-reach places over long periods of time. This work...
Deepak Bhadauria, Volkan Isler, Andrew Studenski, ...