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COMPGEOM
2006
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
On the ICP algorithm
We present upper and lower bounds for the number of iterations performed by the Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm. This algorithm has been proposed by Besl and McKay [4] as ...
Esther Ezra, Micha Sharir, Alon Efrat
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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15 years 4 months ago
Safe fall: Humanoid robot fall direction change through intelligent stepping and inertia shaping
—Although fall is a rare event in the life of a humanoid robot, we must be prepared for it because its consequences are serious. In this paper we present a fall strategy which ra...
Seung-kook Yun, Ambarish Goswami, Yoshiaki Sakagam...
CW
2008
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Automatic Surface Scanning of 3D Artifacts
—This paper describes an automatic 3D surface scanning technique using a 3D scanner. It allows the acquisition of a complete surface model of a 3D artifact without any manual reg...
Shiaofen Fang, Basil George, Mathew Palakal
ICRA
2005
IEEE
118views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
15 years 3 months ago
Planning for Steerable Bevel-tip Needle Insertion Through 2D Soft Tissue with Obstacles
— We explore motion planning for a new class of highly flexible bevel-tip medical needles that can be steered to previously unreachable targets in soft tissue. Planning for thes...
Ron Alterovitz, Kenneth Y. Goldberg, Allison M. Ok...
3DIM
2003
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
A Hierarchical Method for Aligning Warped Meshes
Current alignment algorithms for registering range data captured from a 3D scanner assume that the range data depicts identical geometry taken from different views. However, in th...
Leslie Ikemoto, Natasha Gelfand, Marc Levoy