IROS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
— Highly sophisticated animals consist of a set of heterogenous modules decided by nature so that they can survive in a complex environment. In this paper we present a new modula...
IROS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
— The parametric excitation based gait generation method proposed by Asano et al. restores mechanical energy lost by heel-strike collisions. Harata et. al. applied this method to...
IROS
2008
IEEE
2008
IEEE
Optimal design of a 6-dof parallel measurement mechanism integrated in a 3-dof parallel machine-tool
13 years 11 months ago
Abstract— This paper presents the design and the optimization of a parallel machine-tool composed of (i) an 3-dof actuated parallel mechanism (a linear Delta) and (ii) a 6-dof me...
IROS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
— In this paper, scalable collaborative human-robot systems for information gathering applications are approached as a decentralized Bayesian sensor network problem. Humancompute...
IROS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
IROS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
— We present a comparative study of two spatially resolved macroscopic models of an autonomous robotic swarm. In previous experiments, the collective behavior of 15 autonomous sw...
IROS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
Abstract— Many planning approaches adhere to the twotiered architecture consisting of a long-range, low fidelity global planner and a short-range high fidelity local planner. W...
IROS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
— Grasping is a central issue of various robot applications, especially when unknown objects have to be manipulated by the system. In earlier work, we have shown the efficiency ...
IROS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
— A mobile robot operating in an urban environment has to navigate around obstacles and hazards. Though a significant amount of work has been done on detecting obstacles, not mu...
IROS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
- Human-robot communication is an important subject for housekeeping, elderly care and entertainment robots. To make a natural communication entrainment between human and robot emo...