IROS
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2006
IEEE
— A room is a simple polygon with a prespecified point, called the door, on its boundary. Search starts at the door, and must detect any intruder that may be in the room, while ...
IROS
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2006
IEEE
- In this paper, we present a novel technique for calibrating central omnidirectional cameras. The proposed procedure is very fast and completely automatic, as the user is only ask...
IROS
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2006
IEEE
- Metabolic studies have shown that there is a metabolic cost associated with carrying load [1]. In previous work, a lightweight, underactuated exoskeleton has been described that ...
IROS
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2006
IEEE
This work is about the relevance of Gibson’s concept of affordances [1] for visual perception in interactive and autonomous robotic systems. In extension to existing functional ...
IROS
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2006
IEEE
Abstract— This article presents the development of a humanrobot interaction mechanism based on vision. The functionalities required for such mechanism range from user detection a...
IROS
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2006
IEEE
- In this paper, we seek to understand how leg muscles and tendons work mechanically during walking in order to motivate the design of efficient robotic legs. We hypothesize that a...
IROS
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2006
IEEE
— A “Discretely Actuated Robotic Manipulator”, or “D-ARM”, is any member of a class of robotic manipulators powered by actuators that have only discrete positional stable...
IROS
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2006
IEEE
Abstract— This paper presents a novel application of modular robotic technology. Many researchers expect manufacturing technology will allow robot modules to be built at smaller ...
IROS
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2006
IEEE
— The paper addresses the problem of autonomous navigation of a car-like robot evolving in an urban environment. Such an environment exhibits an heterogeneous geometry and is clu...
IROS
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2006
IEEE
— Classical position-based visual servoing approaches rely on the presence of distinctive features in the image such as corners and edges. In this contribution we exploit a hiera...