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IROS
2008
IEEE
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Cooperative navigation using environment compliant robot formations
— This paper reports an autonomous cooperative navigation system for robot formations in realistic scenarios. The formation movement control is based on a virtual structure compo...
Pablo Urcola, L. Riazuelo, M. T. Lazaro, Luis Mont...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Multi-robot complete exploration using hill climbing and topological recovery
— This article addresses the problem of autonomous map building and exploration of an unknown environment with mobile robots. The proposed method assumes that mobile robots use o...
Rui Rocha, João Filipe Ferreira, Jorge Dias
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Geometrical workspace analysis of a cable-driven redundant parallel manipulator: KNTU CDRPM
— KNTU CDRPM is a cable driven redundant parallel manipulator, which is under investigation for possible high speed and large workspace applications. This newly developed mechani...
Mohammad M. Aref, Hamid D. Taghirad
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Exploiting robot redundancy in collision detection and reaction
Alessandro De Luca, Lorenzo Ferrajoli
IROS
2008
IEEE
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A performance sensitive hormone-inspired system for task distribution amongst evolving robots
— A hormone-inspired task scheduling method is described which assigns tasks to a group of robots, taking into account the robots’ performances. This method draws on previous w...
Joanne H. Walker, Myra S. Wilson
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Navigating dynamic environments using trajectory deformation
Abstract— Path deformation is a technique that was introduced to generate robot motion wherein a path, that has been computed beforehand, is continuously deformed on-line in resp...
Vivien Delsart, Thierry Fraichard
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Neighborhood denoising for learning high-dimensional grasping manifolds
— Human control of high degree-of-freedom robotic systems, e.g. anthropomorphic robot hands, is often difficult due to the overwhelming number of variables that need to be speci...
Aggeliki Tsoli, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Determining the camera to robot-body transformation from planar mirror reflections
Joel A. Hesch, Anastasios I. Mourikis, Stergios I....
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Peltier-based freeze-thaw connector for waterborne self-assembly systems
Abstract— We present a novel type of inter-module connection mechanism for waterborne modular robotic systems. The proposed mechanism exploits the thermoelectric effect to cool d...
Shuhei Miyashita, Flurin Casanova, Max Lungarella,...