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2008
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Auditory mood detection for social and educational robots
— Social robots face the fundamental challenge of detecting and adapting their behavior to the current social mood. For example, robots that assist teachers in early education mu...
Paul Ruvolo, Ian R. Fasel, Javier R. Movellan
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Kinematics and calibration of active cannulas
Abstract— Active cannulas are remotely actuated thin continuum robots with the potential to traverse narrow and winding environments without relying on “guiding” environmenta...
Robert J. Webster III, Joseph M. Romano, Noah J. C...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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An approximate algorithm for solving oracular POMDPs
Abstract— We propose a new approximate algorithm, LAJIV (Lookahead J-MDP Information Value), to solve Oracular Partially Observable Markov Decision Problems (OPOMDPs), a special ...
Nicholas Armstrong-Crews, Manuela M. Veloso
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Differential elastic actuator for robotic interaction tasks
For complex robotic tasks (manipulation, locomotion, haptics, ...), the lack of knowledge of precise interaction models, the difficulties to precisely measure the task associated ...
Michel Lauria, Marc-Antoine Legault, Marc-Andr&eac...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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A body joint improves vertical to horizontal transitions of a wall-climbing robot
— Several recently-designed robots are able to scale steep surfaces using animal-inspired strategies for foot attachment and leg kinematics. These designs could be valuable for r...
Kathryn A. Daltorio, Timothy C. Witushynsky, Grego...
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