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IROS
2007
IEEE
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Design of an automated transportation system in a seaport container terminal for the reliability of operating robots
— For the design of an automated transportation system in an actual seaport container terminal, it is necessary to take into consideration the maintenance of operating robots (AG...
Satoshi Hoshino, Jun Ota
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Planning for robust execution of humanoid motions using future perceptive capability
— We present an approach to motion planning for highly articulated systems that aims to ensure robust execution by augmenting the planning process to reason about the robot’s a...
Philipp Michel, Christian Scheurer, James J. Kuffn...
IROS
2007
IEEE
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A graph theoretic approach to optimal target tracking for mobile robot teams
Abstract— In this paper, we present an optimization framework for target tracking with mobile robot teams. The target tracking problem is modeled as a generic semidefinite progr...
Jason C. Derenick, John R. Spletzer, M. Ani Hsieh
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Handling shape and contact location uncertainty in grasping two-dimensional planar objects
— This paper addresses the problem of selecting contact locations for grasping objects in the presence of shape and contact location uncertainty. Focusing on two-dimensional plan...
Vassilios N. Christopoulos, Paul R. Schrater
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Computational sensor networks
— We propose Computational Sensor Networks as a methodology to exploit models of physical phenomena in order to better understand the structure of the sensor network. To do so, i...
Thomas C. Henderson, Christopher A. Sikorski, Edwa...
IROS
2007
IEEE
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A Kalman filter for robust outlier detection
— In this paper, we introduce a modified Kalman filter that can perform robust, real-time outlier detection in the observations, without the need for parameter tuning. Robotic ...
Jo-Anne Ting, Evangelos Theodorou, Stefan Schaal
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Person following with a mobile robot using binocular feature-based tracking
Abstract— We present the Binocular Sparse Feature Segmentation (BSFS) algorithm for vision-based person following with a mobile robot. BSFS uses Lucas-Kanade feature detection an...
Zhichao Chen, Stanley T. Birchfield
IROS
2007
IEEE
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An extended policy gradient algorithm for robot task learning
Andrea Cherubini, Francesca Giannone, Luca Iocchi,...
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Modeling and motion planning for handling furniture by a mobile manipulator
— This paper introduces a planning method for handling furniture which exists in real world. We propose a method which is easily expandable its handle able furniture such as clos...
Kimitoshi Yamazaki, Takashi Tsubouchi, Masahiro To...
IROS
2007
IEEE
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A multipurpose robotic wheelchair and rehabilitation device for the home
— This paper describes a novel Home Lift, Position, and Rehabilitation (HLPR) Chair, designed at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), to provide independent pat...
Roger Bostelman, James S. Albus