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CORR
2004
Springer
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Gyroscopically Stabilized Robot: Balance and Tracking
: The single wheel, gyroscopically stabilized robot - Gyrover, is a dynamically stable but statically unstable, underactuated system. In this paper, based on the dynamic model of t...
Yongsheng Ou, Yangsheng Xu
AUTOMATICA
2002
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A hybrid control approach to action coordination for mobile robots
In this paper, the problem concerning how to coordinate the contributions from concurrent controllers, when controlling mobile robots, is investigated. It is shown how a behavior ...
Magnus Egerstedt, Xiaoming Hu
AROBOTS
2002
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A Social Robot that Stands in Line
Recent research in mobile robot navigation make it feasible to utilize autonomous robots in service fields. But, such applications require more than just navigation. To operate in...
Yasushi Nakauchi, Reid G. Simmons
AROBOTS
2002
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Visual Navigation in Natural Environments: From Range and Color Data to a Landmark-Based Model
This paper concerns the exploration of a natural environment by a mobile robot equipped with both a video color camera and a stereo-vision system. We focus on the interest of such ...
Rafael Murrieta-Cid, Carlos Parra, Michel Devy
AROBOTS
2002
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Fast, On-Line Learning of Globally Consistent Maps
To navigate in unknown environments, mobile robots require the ability to build their own maps. A major problem for robot map building is that odometry-based dead reckoning cannot ...
Tom Duckett, Stephen Marsland, Jonathan Shapiro
AROBOTS
2002
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Multi-Modal Interaction of Human and Home Robot in the Context of Room Map Generation
In robotics, the idea of human and robot interaction is receiving a lot of attention lately. In this paper, we describe a multi-modal system for generating a map of the environment...
Saeed Shiry Ghidary, Yasushi Nakata, Hiroshi Saito...
AROBOTS
2002
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Recognition of Affective Communicative Intent in Robot-Directed Speech
Human speech provides a natural and intuitive interface for both communicating with humanoid robots as well as for teaching them. In general, the acoustic pattern of speech contain...
Cynthia Breazeal, Lijin Aryananda
AROBOTS
2004
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Bayesian Robot Programming
We propose a new method to program robots based on Bayesian inference and learning. It is called BRP for Bayesian Robot Programming. The capacities of this programming method are d...
Olivier Lebeltel, Pierre Bessière, Julien D...
AR
2004
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Robot phonotaxis in the wild: a biologically inspired approach to outdoor sound localization
Cricket phonotaxis (sound localization behavior) was implemented on an autonomous outdoor robot platform inspired by cockroach locomotion. This required the integration of a novel...
Andrew D. Horchler, Richard E. Reeve, Barbara Webb...
ALGORITHMICA
2002
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Exploring Unknown Environments with Obstacles
We study exploration problems where a robot has to construct a complete map of an unknown environment using a path that is as short as possible. In the rst problem setting we cons...
Susanne Albers, Klaus Kursawe, Sven Schuierer