Active sensing of a nonholonomic wheeled mobile robot [PDF]
, 2002 This paper focuses on active sensing of nonholonomic wheeled mobile robots (WMRs). Active sensing solves the following problem: given a current knowledge about the robot state and the environment, how to select the next sensing action or sequence of ...
Bruyninckx, H. +2 more
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The Curious Robot - Structuring Interactive Robot Learning [PDF]
, 2009 Lütkebohle I, Peltason J, Schillingmann L, et al. The Curious Robot - Structuring Interactive Robot Learning. In: International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
S. Wachsmuth +13 more
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Design of a cognitive neural predictive controller for mobile robot [PDF]
, 2012 This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and was awarded by Brunel UniversityIn this thesis, a cognitive neural predictive controller system has been designed to guide a nonholonomic wheeled mobile robot during continuous and non ...
Al‐Araji, Ahmed
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Master assisted cooperative control of human and robot [PDF]
, 1996 A cooperative control approach between human and robot takes an important role to carry out various tasks in hazardous environments or space. In this case, a robot is operated based on the cooperation between direct human control and autonomous robot ...
Inoue, Hiroyuki +3 more
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Robot Navigation in Dense Crowds: Statistical Models and Experimental Studies of Human Robot Cooperation [PDF]
, 2013 This thesis explores the problem of mobile robot navigation in dense human crowds. We begin by considering a fundamental impediment to classical motion planning algorithms called the freezing robot problem: once the environment surpasses a certain level
Trautman, Peter
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Robot introspection through learned hidden Markov models [PDF]
, 2006 In this paper we describe a machine learning approach for acquiring a model of a robot behaviour from raw sensor data. We are interested in automating the acquisition of behavioural models to provide a robot with an introspective capability.
Maria Fox +11 more
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Quasi optimal sagittal gait of a biped robot with a new structure of knee joint [PDF]
, 2013 The design of humanoid robots has been a tricky challenge for several years. Due to the kinematic complexity of human joints, their movements are notoriously difficult to be reproduced by a mechanism. The human knees allow movements including rolling and
HOBON, Mathieu +3 more
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A Proposal for a Multi-Drive Heterogeneous Modular Pipe- Inspection Micro-Robot [PDF]
, 2008 This paper presents the architecture used to develop a micro-robot for narrow pipes inspection. Both the electromechanical design and the control scheme will be described. In pipe environments it is very useful to have a method to retrieve information of
Brunete González, Alberto +3 more
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Effective venue image retrieval using robust feature extraction and model constrained matching for mobile robot localization [PDF]
, 2012 This paper describes a novel system for mobile robot localization in an indoor environment, using concepts like homography and matching borrowed from the context of stereo and content-based image retrieval techniques (CBIR).
Feng, Yue +4 more
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Algorithms for Mobile Robot Localization and Mapping, Incorporating Detailed Noise Modeling and Multi-scale Feature Extraction [PDF]
, 2006 Mobile robot localization and mapping in unknown environments is a fundamental requirement for effective autonomous navigation. Three different approaches to localization and mapping are presented.
Pfister, Samuel Thomas
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