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ICRA
2005
IEEE
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16 years 4 days ago
Planning for Steerable Bevel-tip Needle Insertion Through 2D Soft Tissue with Obstacles
— We explore motion planning for a new class of highly flexible bevel-tip medical needles that can be steered to previously unreachable targets in soft tissue. Planning for thes...
Ron Alterovitz, Kenneth Y. Goldberg, Allison M. Ok...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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16 years 4 days ago
An Integrated Spatial Path-planning and Controller Design Approach for a Hover-mode Helicopter Model
— The objective of this paper is to design a controller based on a nonlinear hover-mode model for a helicopter, which can be seamlessly integrated in an existing spatial path-pla...
Kaustubh Pathak, Sunil Kumar Agrawal
GECCO
2005
Springer
118views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
16 years 2 days ago
Learning basic navigation for personal satellite assistant using neuroevolution
The Personal Satellite Assistant (PSA) is a small robot proposed by NASA to assist astronauts who are living and working aboard the space shuttle or space station. To help the ast...
Yiu-Fai Sit, Risto Miikkulainen
ISER
2004
Springer
115views Robotics» more  ISER 2004»
15 years 12 months ago
Dynamic Virtual Fences for Controlling Cows
A virtual fence is created by applying an aversive stimulus to an animal when it approaches a predefined boundary. It is implemented by a small animal-borne computer system with a...
Zack J. Butler, Peter I. Corke, Ronald A. Peterson...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
103views Robotics» more  ICRA 2003»
15 years 11 months ago
Simultaneous localization and mapping with unknown data association using fastSLAM
— The Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) has been the de facto approach to the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) problem for nearly fifteen years. However, the EKF has two ...
Michael Montemerlo, Sebastian Thrun