— Few robot tasks require as forceful an interaction with the world as excavation. In order to effectively plan its actions, our robot excavator requires a method that allows it ...
Abstract-- Vision feedback control loop techniques are efficient for a large class of applications but they come up against difficulties when the initial and desired robot position...
— Simple, fast and lightweight SLAM algorithms are necessary in many embedded robotic systems which soon will be used in houses and offices in order to do various service tasks....
— The work presented in this paper addresses the problem of the stitching task in laparoscopic surgery using a circular needle and a conventional 4 DOFs needle-holder. This task ...
Florent Nageotte, Philippe Zanne, Michel de Mathel...
Decision making models for autonomous agents have received increased attention, particularly in the field of intelligent robots. In this paper we will show how a Defeasible Logic ...