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ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Immobilizing 2D serial chains in form closure grasps
: The immobilization of non-rigid objects is currently an active research area in robotics. This paper explores the problem by studying the immobilization of serial chains of rigid...
Elon Rimon, A. Frank van der Stappen
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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OctoMag: An electromagnetic system for 5-DOF wireless micromanipulation
— We demonstrate five-degree-of-freedom (5-DOF) wireless magnetic control of a fully untethered microrobot (3DOF position, 2-DOF pointing orientation). The microrobot can move t...
Bradley Kratochvil, Michael P. Kummer, Jake J. Abb...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Visual odometry priors for robust EKF-SLAM
— One of the main drawbacks of standard visual EKF-SLAM techniques is the assumption of a general camera motion model. Usually this motion model has been implemented in the liter...
Pablo Fernández Alcantarilla, Luis Miguel B...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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An indoor flying platform with collision robustness and self-recovery
— This paper presents a new paradigm in the design of indoor flying robots that replaces collision avoidance with collision robustness. Indoor flying robots must operate within...
Adam Klaptocz, Grégoire Boutinard-Rouelle, ...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Simulation and control of an autonomous bucket excavator for landscaping tasks
— Introducing autonomous machines to construction areas can improve many of the occurring processes. Therefore, this paper deals with problems in the field of creating an autono...
Daniel Schmidt 0004, Martin Proetzsch, Karsten Ber...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Sampling-Based Motion and Symbolic Action Planning with geometric and differential constraints
Abstract— To compute collision-free and dynamicallyfeasibile trajectories that satisfy high-level specifications given in a planning-domain definition language, this paper prop...
Erion Plaku, Gregory D. Hager
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Trajectory prediction in cluttered voxel environments
Abstract— Trajectory planning and optimization is a fundamental problem in articulated robotics. It is often viewed as a two phase problem of initial feasible path planning aroun...
Nikolay Jetchev, Marc Toussaint
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Maximum likelihood mapping with spectral image registration
Abstract— A core challenge in probabilistic mapping is to extract meaningful uncertainty information from data registration methods. While this has been investigated in ICP-based...
Max Pfingsthorn, Andreas Birk 0002, Sören Sch...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Affordable SLAM through the co-design of hardware and methodology
— Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a prominent feature for autonomous robots operating in undefined environments. Applications areas such as consumer robotics app...
Stéphane Magnenat, Valentin Longchamp, Mich...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Stable and robust walking with compliant legs
— Bipedal walking could be implemented into a robot by mimicking spring-like leg behaviour. The fundamental model, describing human-like leg function in walking is the bipedal sp...
Jürgen Rummel, Yvonne Blum, Horst Moritz Maus...