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AR
1998
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The CMUnited-98 champion small-robot team
Robotic soccer presents a large spectrum of challenging research opportunities. In this article, we present the main research and technical contributions of our champion CMUnited-...
Manuela M. Veloso, Michael H. Bowling, Peter Stone
AI
1998
Springer
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What Robots Can Do: Robot Programs and Effective Achievability
In this paper, we propose a definition of goal achievability: given a basic action theory describing an initial state of the world and some primitive actions available to a robot...
Fangzhen Lin, Hector J. Levesque
RAS
2000
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Visual servoing and appearance for navigation
We address the problem of visual-based navigation of a mobile robot in indoors environments. The robot control system is based on a single camera to provide the required visual fe...
Raquel Frizera Vassallo, Hans J. Schneebeli, Jos&e...
RAS
2000
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Benchmarking cerebellar control
Cerebellar models have long been advocated as viable models for robot dynamics control. Building on an increasing insight in and knowledge of the biological cerebellum, many model...
P. Patrick van der Smagt
RAS
2000
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Architectures for a biomimetic hexapod robot
This paper describes a six-legged robot based on the features of an agile insect, the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana. The robot is designed with insect-like leg structu...
Fred Delcomyn, Mark E. Nelson
IJRR
2000
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Sensor-Based Exploration: Incremental Construction of the Hierarchical Generalized Voronoi Graph
This paper prescribes an incremental procedure to construct roadmaps of unknown environments. Recall that a roadmap is a geometric structure that a robot uses to plan a path betwe...
Howie Choset, Sean Walker, Kunnayut Eiamsa-Ard, Jo...
EXPERT
2000
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Social Constraints on Animate Vision
Our group builds robots to operate in natural, social environments. The challenge of interacting with humans constrains how our robots appear physically, how they move, how they p...
Cynthia Breazeal, Aaron Edsinger, Paul M. Fitzpatr...
AROBOTS
2000
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Acquiring Mobile Robot Behaviors by Learning Trajectory Velocities
Abstract. The development of robots that learn from experience is a relentless challenge confronting artificial intelligence today. This paper describes a robot learning method whi...
Koren Ward, Alexander Zelinsky
AROBOTS
2000
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A Gesture Based Interface for Human-Robot Interaction
Service robotics is currently a pivotal research area in robotics, with enormous societal potential. Since service robots directly interact with people, nding natural" and ea...
Stefan Waldherr, Roseli Romero, Sebastian Thrun
AROBOTS
2000
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The Inchworm Robot: A Multi-Functional System
We wish for robots to manipulate objects and move flexibly in three-dimensional spaces. We describe a robot that can move on a web of surfaces oriented around arbitrary directions ...
Keith Kotay, Daniela Rus