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GECCO
2010
Springer
191views Optimization» more  GECCO 2010»
14 years 10 months ago
Fitness importance for online evolution
To complement standard fitness functions, we propose "Fitness Importance" (FI) as a novel meta-heuristic for online learning systems. We define FI and show how it can be...
Philip Valencia, Raja Jurdak, Peter Lindsay
AROBOTS
2002
115views more  AROBOTS 2002»
14 years 9 months ago
Statistical Learning for Humanoid Robots
The complexity of the kinematic and dynamic structure of humanoid robots make conventional analytical approaches to control increasingly unsuitable for such systems. Learning techn...
Sethu Vijayakumar, Aaron D'Souza, Tomohiro Shibata...
IROS
2009
IEEE
195views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
System design of an Insertable Robotic Effector Platform for Single Port Access (SPA) Surgery
—This paper presents a novel design and preliminary kinematic analysis of an Insertable Robotic Effector Platform (IREP) for Single Port Access (SPA) Surgery. The IREP robot can ...
Kai Xu 0005, Roger E. Goldman, Jienan Ding, Peter ...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
208views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
15 years 4 months ago
Unsupervised body scheme learning through self-perception
— In this paper, we present an approach allowing a robot to learn a generative model of its own physical body from scratch using self-perception with a single monocular camera. O...
Jürgen Sturm, Christian Plagemann, Wolfram Bu...
IROS
2008
IEEE
172views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
15 years 4 months ago
Hand-eye self-calibration of an ultrasound image-based robotic system
— In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in developing systems that couple a robotic device with an ultrasound imager. Applications range from automatic probe pos...
Marie-Aude Vitrani, Guillaume Morel