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IROS
2007
IEEE
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Test-environment based on a team of miniature walking robots for evaluation of collaborative control methods
— For the collaborative control of a team of robots, a set of well-suited high-level control algorithms, especially for path planning and measurement scheduling, is essential. Th...
Florian Weissel, Marco F. Huber, Uwe D. Hanebeck
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Multi-agent search with interim positive information
– A problem of searching with multiple searchers and scouts is presented. Unlike most search problems that terminate as soon as the target is found, successful detections by scou...
Haye Lau, Shoudong Huang, Gamini Dissanayake
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Geometric motion estimation and control for robotic-assisted beating-heart surgery
— One of the potential benefits of robotic systems in cardiac surgery is that their use can increase the number of possible off-pump (beating heart) coronary artery bypass graft...
Vincent Duindam, Shankar Sastry
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Attitude stabilization in hover flight of a mini tail-sitter UAV with variable pitch propeller
— In this paper, the modeling and control design of a vertical flight attitude control for a mini tail-sitter with variable pitch propeller is discussed. Tail-sitters VTOL-UAVs ...
K. C. Wong, Jose Alfredo Guerrero Mata, David Lara...
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Coordination of multiple vehicles for area coverage tasks
— Area coverage operations such as plowing a field or mowing a lawn can be performed faster if multiple vehicles are involved. To use a team of automated vehicles safely and eff...
Garrett Dean Winward, Nicholas S. Flann
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Control-driven mapping and planning
— Layered hybrid controllers typically include a planner at the top level with reactive control at the lower levels. The planner considers the state of the robot in a global cont...
David Wooden, Matthew Powers, Douglas C. MacKenzie...
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Incremental multi-robot task selection for resource constrained and interrelated tasks
— When the tasks of a mission are interrelated and subject to several resource constraints, more efforts are needed to coordinate robots towards achieving the mission than indepe...
Sanem Sariel, Tucker R. Balch, Nadia Erdogan
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Differentiable and piecewise differentiable gaits for snake robots
—This paper describes a series of gaits which we developed for a free crawling snake robot. Snake robots, a class of hyper-redundant mechanisms, can use their many degrees of fre...
Kevin Lipkin, Isaac Brown, Aaron Peck, Howie Chose...
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Dynamometer power output measurements of piezoelectric actuators
— Piezoelectric bending actuators are an attractive option for driving microrobots due to their light weight, scalability, ease of integration and high bandwidth. However, the on...
Erik Steltz, Ronald S. Fearing
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Power-SLAM: A linear-complexity, consistent algorithm for SLAM
— In this paper, we present an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF)-based estimator for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) with processing requirements that are linear in the n...
Esha D. Nerurkar, Stergios I. Roumeliotis