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ESA
2009
Springer
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Optimality and Competitiveness of Exploring Polygons by Mobile Robots
Abstract. A mobile robot, represented by a point moving along a polygonal line in the plane, has to explore an unknown polygon and return to the starting point. The robot has a sen...
Jurek Czyzowicz, Arnaud Labourel, Andrzej Pelc
ADHOCNOW
2009
Springer
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Auction Aggregation Protocols for Wireless Robot-Robot Coordination
Abstract. Robots coordinate among themselves to select one of them to respond to an event reported to one of robots. The goal is to minimize the communication cost of selecting bes...
Ivan Mezei, Veljko Malbasa, Ivan Stojmenovic
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Integrating asynchronous observations for mobile robot position tracking in cooperative environments
— This paper presents an asynchronous particle filter algorithm for mobile robot position tracking, taking into account time considerations when integrating observations being d...
Andreu Corominas Murtra, Josep Maria Mirats i Tur,...
IROS
2009
IEEE
120views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
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Interactive learning of visually symmetric objects
— This paper describes a robotic system that learns visual models of symmetric objects autonomously. Our robot learns by physically interacting with an object using its end effec...
Wai Ho Li, Lindsay Kleeman
IROS
2009
IEEE
140views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
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Transferring embodied concepts between perceptually heterogeneous robots
— This paper explores methods and representations that allow two perceptually heterogeneous robots, each of which represents concepts via grounded properties, to transfer knowled...
Zsolt Kira
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Action-related place-based mobile manipulation
— In mobile manipulation, the position to which the robot navigates has a large influence on the ease with which a subsequent manipulation action can be performed. Whether a man...
Freek Stulp, Andreas Fedrizzi, Michael Beetz
IROS
2009
IEEE
127views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
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Expressive facial speech synthesis on a robotic platform
— This paper presents our expressive facial speech synthesis system Eface, for a social or service robot. Eface aims at enabling a robot to deliver information clearly with empat...
Xingyan Li, Bruce MacDonald, Catherine I. Watson
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Human-robot team navigation in visually complex environments
—Current fully autonomous robots are unable to navigate effectively in visually complex environments due to limitations in sensing and cognition. Full teleoperation using current...
John Carff, Matthew Johnson, Eman El-Sheikh, Jerry...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Representation and shape estimation of Odin, a parallel under-actuated modular robot
— To understand the capabilities and behavior of a robot it is important to have knowledge about its physical structure and how its actuators control its shape. In this paper we ...
Andreas Lyder, Henrik Gordon Petersen, Kasper St&o...
IROS
2009
IEEE
178views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
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Mobile robots for offshore inspection and manipulation
— This paper analyzes the potential to apply mobile service robots in offshore oil and gas producing environments. The required hardware and software components and abilities of ...
Matthias Bengel, Kai Pfeiffer, Birgit Graf, Alexan...