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CRV
2006
IEEE
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The Nomad 200 and the Nomad SuperScout: Reverse engineered and resurrected
The Nomad 200 and the Nomad SuperScouts are among the most popular platforms used, for research in robotics. Built in the early 1990’s they were the base of choice for many mobil...
Arjun Chopra, Mark Obsniuk, Michael R. M. Jenkin
WEBI
2007
Springer
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Determining Bias to Search Engines from Robots.txt
Search engines largely rely on robots (i.e., crawlers or spiders) to collect information from the Web. Such crawling activities can be regulated from the server side by deploying ...
Yang Sun, Ziming Zhuang, Isaac G. Councill, C. Lee...
ROBOCUP
2007
Springer
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Tailored Real-Time Simulation for Teams of Humanoid Robots
Abstract. Developing and testing the key modules of autonomous humanoid soccer robots (e.g., for vision, localization, and behavior control) in software-in-the-loop (SIL) experimen...
Martin Friedmann, Karen Petersen, Oskar von Stryk
ROBOCUP
2007
Springer
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Self-localization Using Odometry and Horizontal Bearings to Landmarks
On the way to the big goal - the game against the human world champion on a real soccer field - the configuration of the soccer fields in RoboCup has changed during the last yea...
Matthias Jüngel, Max Risler
GECCO
2007
Springer
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Exploiting multiple robots to accelerate self-modeling
In previous work [8] a computational framework was demonstrated that allows a mobile robot to autonomously evolve models its own body for the purposes of adaptive behavior generat...
Josh C. Bongard
ECAL
2007
Springer
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From Solitary to Collective Behaviours: Decision Making and Cooperation
In a social scenario, establishing whether a collaboration is required to achieve a certain goal is a complex problem that requires decision making capabilities and coordination am...
Vito Trianni, Christos Ampatzis, Anders Lyhne Chri...
ATAL
2007
Springer
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Executing multi-robot cases through a single coordinator
It is challenging to design general robot soccer coordination behaviors that address individual states. We have successfully followed a case-based approach to define behaviors fo...
Raquel Ros, Manuela M. Veloso
ROBOCOMM
2007
IEEE
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Achieving connectivity through coalescence in mobile robot networks
—Coalescence is the problem of isolated mobile robots independently searching for peers with the goal of forming a single connected network. This paper analyzes coalescence time ...
Sameera Poduri, Gaurav S. Sukhatme
ROMAN
2007
IEEE
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Is The Uncanny Valley An Uncanny Cliff?
— The uncanny valley theory proposed by Mori in 1970 has been a hot topic in human robot interaction research, in particular since the development of increasingly human-like andr...
Christoph Bartneck, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishigu...
ROMAN
2007
IEEE
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Issues in Human/Robot Task Structuring and Teaching
—Teaching a robot new skills may require that the teacher scaffolds the teaching experience appropriately. However, due to inherent assumptions made by a human teacher the scaffo...
Joe Saunders, Nuno Otero, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv