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ICRA
2008
IEEE
117views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
15 years 4 months ago
Kinematics and calibration of active cannulas
Abstract— Active cannulas are remotely actuated thin continuum robots with the potential to traverse narrow and winding environments without relying on “guiding” environmenta...
Robert J. Webster III, Joseph M. Romano, Noah J. C...
PUC
2002
150views more  PUC 2002»
14 years 9 months ago
New Active Tools for Supporting Narrative Structures
: Constructing stories is a type of playing that involves mobilizing the storyteller's imagination and finding original ways to convey narrative intentions. When a child inven...
Françoise Decortis, Antonio Rizzo
WG
2010
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Network Exploration by Silent and Oblivious Robots
In this paper we investigate the basic problem of Exploration of a graph by a group of identical mobile computational entities, called robots, operating autonomously and asynchrono...
Jérémie Chalopin, Paola Flocchini, B...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
193views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
14 years 7 months ago
Real-time identification and localization of body parts from depth images
Abstract-- We deal with the problem of detecting and identifying body parts in depth images at video frame rates. Our solution involves a novel interest point detector for mesh and...
Christian Plagemann, Varun Ganapathi, Daphne Kolle...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
110views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Vertical line matching for omnidirectional stereovision images
We are investigating the mobile robot indoor localization and environment mapping using an omnidirectional stereovision sensor. It uses four parabolic mirrors and an orthographic ...
Guillaume Caron, El Mustapha Mouaddib