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IJRR
2008
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Legless Locomotion: A Novel Locomotion Technique for Legged Robots
We present a novel locomotion strategy called legless locomotion that allows a round-bodied legged robot to locomote approximately when it is high-centered. Typically, a high-cent...
Ravi Balasubramanian, Alfred A. Rizzi, Matthew T. ...
IJHR
2008
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A Team of Humanoid Game commentators
We present our work on creating a team of two humanoid robot commentators for soccer games of teams of four AIBO robots. The two humanoids stand on the side lines of the field, aut...
Manuela M. Veloso, Nicholas Armstrong-Crews, Sonia...
CORR
2006
Springer
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Circle Formation of Weak Mobile Robots
The contribution is twofold. We first show the validity of the conjecture of D
Yoann Dieudonné, Ouiddad Labbani-Igbida, Fr...
AROBOTS
2006
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Multimode locomotion via SuperBot reconfigurable robots
Abstract One of the most challenging issues for a selfsustaining robotic system is how to use its limited resources to accomplish a large variety of tasks. The scope of such tasks ...
Wei-Min Shen, Maks Krivokon, Harris Chiu, Jacob Ev...
AR
2006
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Rescue robotics - A crucial milestone on the road to autonomous systems
Rescue robotics is an important steppingstone in the scientific challenge to create autonomous systems. There is a significant market for rescue robots, which has unique features ...
Andreas Birk 0002, Stefano Carpin
AIS
2006
Springer
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Experimental investigation into influence of negative attitudes toward robots on human-robot interaction
Negative attitudes toward robots are considered as one of psychological factors preventing humans from interacting with robots in daily life. To verify their influence on humans&#...
Tatsuya Nomura, Takayuki Kanda, Tomohiro Suzuki
AEI
2006
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Design issues for assistive robotics for the elderly
The worldwide population of elderly people is growing rapidly and in the coming decades the proportion of older people in the developed countries will change significantly. This d...
Qinggang Meng, Mark H. Lee
CORR
2008
Springer
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On Endogenous Reconfiguration in Mobile Robotic Networks
: In this paper, our focus is on certain applications for mobile robotic networks, where reconfiguration is driven by factors intrinsic to the network rather than changes in the ex...
Ketan Savla, Emilio Frazzoli
CORR
2010
Springer
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The Use of Probabilistic Systems to Mimic the Behaviour of Idiotypic AIS Robot Controllers
Previous work has shown that robot navigation systems that employ an architecture based upon the idiotypic network theory of the immune system have an advantage over control techn...
Amanda M. Whitbrook, Uwe Aickelin, Jonathan M. Gar...
CORR
2010
Springer
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Mimicking the Behaviour of Idiotypic AIS Robot Controllers Using Probabilistic Systems
Previous work has shown that robot navigation systems that employ an architecture based upon the idiotypic network theory of the immune system have an advantage over control techn...
Amanda M. Whitbrook, Uwe Aickelin, Jonathan M. Gar...