— Localization for low cost humanoid or animal-like personal robots has to rely on cheap sensors and has to be robust to user manipulations of the robot. We present a visual loca...
— Biped robots based on the concept of (passive) dynamic walking are far simpler than the traditional fullycontrolled walking robots, while achieving a more natural gait and cons...
Shouyi Wang, Jelmer Braaksma, Robert Babuska, Daan...
For a robot, the ability to get from one place to another is one of the most basic skills. However, locomotion on legged robots is a challenging multidimensional control problem. ...
— In an effort to ease the burden of programming motor commands for humanoid robots, a computer vision technique is developed for converting a monocular video sequence of human p...
Jeffrey B. Cole, David B. Grimes, Rajesh P. N. Rao
Future homes will be populated with large numbers of robots with diverse functionalities, ranging from chore robots to elder care robots to entertainment robots. While household r...
Tamara Denning, Cynthia Matuszek, Karl Koscher, Jo...