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ICRA
2003
IEEE
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15 years 11 months ago
Development of a Hot Gas Actuator for Self-Powered Robots
This paper describes the design of a liquid-propellantpowered hot-gas actuator appropriate for human-scale power-autonomous robots. A prototype of the actuation system is describe...
Michael Goldfarb, Eric J. Barth, Michael A. Gogola...
ICRA
1994
IEEE
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15 years 10 months ago
Local Incremental Planning for Nonholonomic Mobile Robots
We present a simple approach for planning the motion of nonholonomic robots among obstacles. Existing methods lead to open-loop solutions which are either obtained in two stages, ...
Alessandro De Luca, Giuseppe Oriolo
ICML
2001
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Using EM to Learn 3D Models of Indoor Environments with Mobile Robots
This paper describes an algorithm for generating compact 3D models of indoor environments with mobile robots. Our algorithm employs the expectation maximization algorithm to fit a...
Yufeng Liu, Rosemary Emery, Deepayan Chakrabarti, ...
DIGITEL
2008
IEEE
16 years 29 days ago
RoboMusicKids - Music Education with Robotic Building Blocks
Being able to express oneself musically and experiment with music composition is traditionally determined by one’s ability to play an actual instrument with a certain degree of ...
Jacob Nielsen, Niels Kristian Bærendsen, Car...
AIS
2008
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Asimov's "three laws of robotics" and machine metaethics
Using Asimov's "Bicentennial Man" as a springboard, a number of metaethical issues concerning the emerging field of Machine Ethics are discussed. Although the ultim...
Susan Leigh Anderson