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ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Learning Globally Consistent Maps by Relaxation
Mobile robots require the ability to build their own maps to operate in unknown environments. A fundamental problem is that odometry-based dead reckoning cannot be used to assign ...
Tom Duckett, Stephen Marsland, Jonathan Shapiro
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Design, Modeling and Preliminary Control of a Compliant Hexapod Robot
In this paper, we present the design, modeling and preliminary control of RHex, an autonomous dynamically stable hexapod possessing merely six actuated degrees of freedom (at the ...
Uluc Saranli, Martin Buehler, Daniel E. Koditschek
ASSETS
2000
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Constructive exploration of spatial information by blind users
When blind people wish to walk through an area not fully known to them, they have to prepare themselves even more thoroughly than sighted pedestrians. We propose a new approach to...
Jochen Schneider, Thomas Strothotte
ASSETS
2000
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
A Java programming tool for students with visual disabilities
This paper reports on a tool for assisting students with visual disabilities in learning how to program. The tool is meant to be used by computer science majors learning the progr...
Ann C. Smith, Joan M. Francioni, Sam D. Matzek
PLDI
2000
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Caching function calls using precise dependencies
This paper describes the implementation of a purely functional programming language for building software systems. In this language, external tools like compilers and linkers are ...
Allan Heydon, Roy Levin, Yuan Yu