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IROS
2008
IEEE
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Positioning mobile manipulators to perform constrained linear trajectories
Abstract— For mobile manipulators envisioned in home environments a kitchen scenario provides a challenging testbed for numerous skills. Diverse manipulation actions are required...
Franziska Zacharias, Christoph Borst, Michael Beet...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Fast plane detection and polygonalization in noisy 3D range images
— A very fast but nevertheless accurate approach for surface extraction from noisy 3D point clouds is presented. It consists of two parts, namely a plane fitting and a polygonal...
Jann Poppinga, Narunas Vaskevicius, Andreas Birk 0...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Minimally invasive torque sensor for tendon-driven robotic hands
— The purpose of this paper is to present preliminary results on the use of a torque sensor based on a Bragg grating for torque control applications of tendon-driven mechanisms. ...
Ciro Natale, Salvatore Pirozzi
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Smooth Nearness-Diagram Navigation
— This paper presents a new method for reactive collision avoidance for mobile robots in complex and cluttered environments. Our technique is to adapt the “divide and conquer...
Joseph W. Durham, Francesco Bullo
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Scaffolding on-line segmentation of full body human motion patterns
Abstract— This paper develops an approach for on-line segmentation of whole body human motion patterns during human motion observation and learning. A Hidden Markov Model is used...
Dana Kulic, Yoshihiko Nakamura
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Laban Movement Analysis for multi-ocular systems
Abstract— We present as a contribution to the field of humanmachine interaction a system that analyzes human movements online through multiple observers, based on the concept of...
Jörg Rett, Luis Santos, Jorge Dias
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Dexterous manipulation planning of objects with surface of revolution
— In this paper, we propose a novel method for dexterous manipulation planning problem of rotating object with surface of revolution using a robotic multi-fingered hand. This me...
Zhixing Xue, Johann Marius Zöllner, Rüdi...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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A model-predictive approach to formation control of omnidirectional mobile robots
— This paper presents a solution to the problem of steering a group of real omnidirectional mobile robots along a given path, while maintaining a desired formation pattern. This ...
Kiattisin Kanjanawanishkul, Andreas Zell
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Adaptive motion planning for humanoid robots
— Motion planning for robots with many degrees of freedom (DoF) is a generally unsolved problem in the robotics context. In this work an approach for trajectory planning is prese...
Niko Vahrenkamp, Christian Scheurer, Tamim Asfour,...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Active sensing based dynamical object feature extraction
— This paper presents a method to autonomously extract object features that describe their dynamics from active sensing experiences. The model is composed of a dynamics learning ...
Shun Nishide, Tetsuya Ogata, Ryunosuke Yokoya, Jun...