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IROS
2008
IEEE
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15 years 4 months ago
A performance sensitive hormone-inspired system for task distribution amongst evolving robots
— A hormone-inspired task scheduling method is described which assigns tasks to a group of robots, taking into account the robots’ performances. This method draws on previous w...
Joanne H. Walker, Myra S. Wilson
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ICRA
2007
IEEE
155views Robotics» more  ICRA 2007»
15 years 4 months ago
Dogged Learning for Robots
— Ubiquitous robots need the ability to adapt their behaviour to the changing situations and demands they will encounter during their lifetimes. In particular, non-technical user...
Daniel H. Grollman, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins
RAS
2006
91views more  RAS 2006»
14 years 9 months ago
Visual navigation and obstacle avoidance using a steering potential function
Humans have a remarkable ability to navigate using only vision, but mobile robots have not been nearly as successful. We propose a new approach to vision-guided local navigation, ...
Wesley H. Huang, Brett R. Fajen, Jonathan R. Fink,...
AROBOTS
2005
55views more  AROBOTS 2005»
14 years 9 months ago
Nonlinear Control for the Dual Smart Drive Using Backstepping and a Time-Optimal Reference
The Dual Smart Drive is a specially designed nonlinear actuator intended for use in climbing and walking legged robots. It features a continuously changing transmission ratio and d...
Roemi Fernández, João Pedro Hespanha...
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ICRA
2000
IEEE
126views Robotics» more  ICRA 2000»
15 years 1 months ago
Identification and Decoupling Control of Flexure Jointed Hexapods
By exploiting properties of the joint space mass-inertia matrix of flexure jointed hexapods, a new decoupling method is proposed. The new decoupling method, through a static input...
Yixin Chen, John E. McInroy