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IROS
2006
IEEE
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Attitude Control of a Quadruped Trot While Turning
— During a complete running stride, which involves significant periods of flight during which no legs are contacting the ground, a quadruped cannot employ static stability tech...
Luther R. Palmer, David E. Orin
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Toward Legless Locomotion Control
— Motivated by an error-recovery locomotion problem, we propose a control technique for a complex mechanical system by decomposing the system dynamics into a collection of simpli...
Ravi Balasubramanian, Alfred A. Rizzi, Matthew T. ...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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SUPERBOT: A Deployable, Multi-Functional, and Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robotic System
– Self-reconfigurable robots are modular robots that can autonomously change their shape and size to meet specific operational demands. Recently, there has been a great interest ...
Behnam Salemi, Mark Moll, Wei-Min Shen
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Sparse appearance based modeling for robot localization
— In appearance based robot localization a new image is matched with every image in the database. In this paper we describe how to reduce the number of images in this database wi...
Olaf Booij, Zoran Zivkovic, Ben J. A. Kröse
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Natural Motion Generation for Humanoid Robots
ion". Technical Sketch. ACM SIGGRAPH 2002 Conference Abstracts and Applications. AWARDS 2007 – 2008 Siebel Scholar Fellowship 2003 – 2007 Thomas V. Jones Stanford Graduate...
Kensuke Harada, Kris K. Hauser, Timothy Bretl, Jea...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Static Walk of a Humanoid Robot Based on the Singularity-Consistent Method
— This paper addresses the problem of naturally looking and energy efficient walk of biped humanoids. We presuppose that such walk requires motion control capability around kine...
Kentaro Takahashi, M. Noda, Dragomir N. Nenchev, Y...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Generating Thrust with a Biologically-Inspired Robotic Ribbon Fin
—We present experimental results of thrust produced by a robotic propulsor, the design of which is inspired by the ribbon fin of the South American black ghost knifefish (Apteron...
Michael Epstein, J. Edward Colgate, Malcolm A. Mac...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Decoupled Homography-based Visual Servoing with Omnidirectional Cameras
Abstract— This paper presents a new hybrid decoupled visionbased control scheme valid for the entire class of central catadioptric sensors (including conventional perspective cam...
Hicham Hadj-Abdelkader, Youcef Mezouar, Nicolas An...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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A Laserscanner-Vision Fusion System Implemented on the TerraMax Autonomous Vehicle
— This paper presents a sensor fusion model developed for the 2005 Grand Challenge competition, an autonomous ground vehicle race across the Mojave desert organized by DARPA1 . T...
Alberto Broggi, Stefano Cattani, Pier Paolo Porta,...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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3D Field D: Improved Path Planning and Replanning in Three Dimensions
— We present an interpolation-based planning and replanning algorithm that is able to produce direct, lowcost paths through three-dimensional environments. Our algorithm builds u...
Joseph Carsten, Dave Ferguson, Anthony Stentz