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A novel type of compliant and underactuated robotic hand for dexterous grasping (2016) (790)
High-speed navigation using the global dynamic window approach (1999) (584)
MV routing and capacity building in disruption tolerant networks (2005) (459)
The limits and potentials of deep learning for robotics (2018) (406)
Analysis and Observations From the First Amazon Picking Challenge (2016) (344)
Elastic Strips : A Framework for Motion Generation in Human Environments (2003) (305)
A compliant hand based on a novel pneumatic actuator (2013) (258)
Interactive Perception: Leveraging Action in Perception and Perception in Action (2016) (227)
Robots in Human Environments: Basic Autonomous Capabilities (1999) (206)
Exploitation of environmental constraints in human and robotic grasping (2015) (189)
Learning state representations with robotic priors (2015) (169)
Lessons from the Amazon Picking Challenge: Four Aspects of Building Robotic Systems (2016) (164)
Manipulating articulated objects with interactive perception (2008) (161)
Real-time re-planning in high-dimensional configuration spaces using sets of homotopic paths (2000) (146)
Planning Long Dynamically-Feasible Maneuvers for Autonomous Vehicles (2009) (134)
Toward Optimal Configuration Space Sampling (2005) (132)
Task-consistent obstacle avoidance and motion behavior for mobile manipulation (2002) (129)
Decomposition-based motion planning: a framework for real-time motion planning in high-dimensional configuration spaces (2001) (127)
Map-Based Precision Vehicle Localization in Urban Environments (2008) (124)
Sampling-Based Motion Planning Using Predictive Models (2005) (113)
Interactive segmentation for manipulation in unstructured environments (2009) (111)
A Novel Type of Compliant, Underactuated Robotic Hand for Dexterous Grasping (2014) (111)
Elastic Strips: A Framework for Motion Generation in Human Environments (2002) (109)
Elastic Roadmaps: Globally Task-Consistent Motion for Autonomous Mobile Manipulation in Dynamic Environments (2006) (106)
Selective stiffening of soft actuators based on jamming (2015) (104)
Elastic roadmaps—motion generation for autonomous mobile manipulation (2010) (100)
Differentiable Particle Filters: End-to-End Learning with Algorithmic Priors (2018) (98)
Learning to Manipulate Articulated Objects in Unstructured Environments Using a Grounded Relational Representation (2008) (97)
Balancing exploration and exploitation in motion planning (2008) (95)
Sampling-Based Motion Planning With Sensing Uncertainty (2007) (93)
Lessons from the Amazon Picking Challenge (2016) (83)
Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping in Dynamic Environments (SLAMIDE) with Reversible Data Association (2008) (81)
MORA routing and capacity building in disruption-tolerant networks (2008) (76)
Adapting the sampling distribution in PRM planners based on an approximated medial axis (2004) (74)
Single-Query Motion Planning with Utility-Guided Random Trees (2007) (72)
Balancing Exploration and Exploitation in Sampling-Based Motion Planning (2014) (70)
Serum Albumin Domain Structures in Human Blood Serum by Mass Spectrometry and Computational Biology* (2015) (70)
Elastic Strips: A Framework for Integrated Planning and Execution (1999) (68)
The UMass Mobile Manipulator UMan: An Experimental Platform for Autonomous Mobile Manipulation (2006) (67)
Online interactive perception of articulated objects with multi-level recursive estimation based on task-specific priors (2014) (67)
Robotics and interactive simulation (2002) (67)
Probabilistic multi-class segmentation for the Amazon Picking Challenge (2016) (60)
Grasping unknown objects by exploiting shape adaptability and environmental constraints (2013) (55)
State Representation Learning in Robotics: Using Prior Knowledge about Physical Interaction (2014) (51)
Interactive Perception of Articulated Objects (2010) (50)
Guiding conformation space search with an all‐atom energy potential (2008) (48)
Elastic Strips: Real-Time Path Modification for Mobile Manipulation (1998) (48)
A method for sensorizing soft actuators and its application to the RBO hand 2 (2017) (48)
Planning grasp strategies That Exploit Environmental Constraints (2015) (46)
An integrated approach to visual perception of articulated objects (2016) (45)
Soft Robotics: Transferring Theory to Application (2015) (44)
Robots in human environments (1999) (42)
Generating robot motion: the integration of planning and execution (1999) (40)
Contextual Learning (2015) (36)
Human-Centered Robotics and Interactive Haptic Simulation (2004) (36)
A Framework for Learning and Control in Intelligent Humanoid Robots (2005) (35)
NanoNewton Force Sensing and Control in Microrobotic Cell Manipulation (2009) (35)
Semantic Modeling of Places using Objects (2008) (34)
Efficient and robust computation of an approximated medial axis (2004) (33)
Human-Centered Robotics and Interactive Haptic Simulation (2004) (32)
CRF-Matching: Conditional Random Fields for Feature-Based Scan Matching (2008) (32)
Efficient Motion Planning Based on Disassembly (2005) (32)
Online Learning for Offroad Robots: Using Spatial Label Propagation to Learn Long-Range Traversability (2008) (31)
Improving protein structure prediction with model-based search (2005) (31)
End-to-End Learnable Histogram Filters (2017) (31)
Information theoretic construction of probabilistic roadmaps (2003) (30)
Prior-assisted propagation of spatial information for object search (2014) (30)
EPSILON-CP: using deep learning to combine information from multiple sources for protein contact prediction (2017) (29)
Entropy-based strategies for physical exploration of the environment's degrees of freedom (2014) (29)
BiSpace Planning: Concurrent Multi-Space Exploration (2009) (29)
Efficient FEM-Based Simulation of Soft Robots Modeled as Kinematic Chains (2018) (28)
Soft Hands for Reliable Grasping Strategies (2015) (28)
Blind testing of cross‐linking/mass spectrometry hybrid methods in CASP11 (2016) (27)
The RBO dataset of articulated objects and interactions (2018) (27)
Combining Physicochemical and Evolutionary Information for Protein Contact Prediction (2014) (27)
Surprisingly Robust In-Hand Manipulation: An Empirical Study (2021) (26)
A methodology for efficiently sampling the conformation space of molecular structures (2005) (25)
Automated co-design of soft hand morphology and control strategy for grasping (2017) (24)
Extracting Planar Kinematic Models Using Interactive Perception (2008) (24)
Executing motion plans for robots with many degrees of freedom in dynamic environments (1998) (24)
A taxonomy of human grasping behavior suitable for transfer to robotic hands (2015) (24)
Guest Editorial Open Discussion of Robot Grasping Benchmarks, Protocols, and Metrics (2018) (24)
Autonomous enhancement of disruption tolerant networks (2006) (24)
Patterns for Learning with Side Information (2015) (23)
A Framework For Humanoid Control and Intelligence (2003) (23)
Handshakiness: Benchmarking for human-robot hand interactions (2017) (23)
Blind Evaluation of Hybrid Protein Structure Analysis Methods based on Cross-Linking (2016) (22)
A Local Collision Avoidance Method for Non-strictly Convex Polyhedra (2009) (22)
High Performance Outdoor Navigation from Overhead Data using Imitation Learning (2009) (22)
RBO Aleph: leveraging novel information sources for protein structure prediction (2015) (22)
Spatially-Adaptive Learning Rates for Online Incremental SLAM (2008) (20)
Single-Query Entropy-Guided Path Planning (2005) (19)
A compact representation of human single-object grasping (2016) (19)
Humanoid Mobile Manipulation Using Controller Refinement (2006) (19)
Contingent Contact-Based Motion Planning (2018) (19)
Coupled recursive estimation for online interactive perception of articulated objects (2019) (19)
Interleaving motion in contact and in free space for planning under uncertainty (2017) (19)
Four aspects of building robotic systems: lessons from the Amazon Picking Challenge 2015 (2018) (18)
SARSOP: Efficient Point-Based POMDP Planning by Approximating Optimally Reachable Belief Spaces (2009) (18)
Morphological computation: The good, the bad, and the ugly (2017) (18)
Real-time obstacle avoidance and motion coordination in a multi-robot workcell (1999) (18)
Detection of Principal Directions in Unknown Environments for Autonomous Navigation (2009) (17)
Cascaded filter approach to multi-objective control (2004) (17)
Mass control of pneumatic soft continuum actuators with commodity components (2016) (17)
Acoustic Sensing for Soft Pneumatic Actuators (2018) (17)
Extracting kinematic background knowledge from interactions using task-sensitive relational learning (2014) (16)
Mobility and Manipulation (2016) (16)
A Factorization Approach to Manipulation in Unstructured Environments (2009) (16)
Deterioration of depth measurements due to interference of multiple RGB-D sensors (2014) (15)
Exploiting redundancy to implement multiobjective behavior (2003) (15)
Opening a lockbox through physical exploration (2017) (15)
Visual detection of opportunities to exploit contact in grasping using contextual multi-armed bandits (2017) (15)
Learning Task-Specific State Representations by Maximizing Slowness and Predictability (2013) (14)
Transferring synergies from neuroscience to robotics: Comment on "Hand synergies: Integration of robotics and neuroscience for understanding the control of biological and artificial hands" by M. Santello et al. (2016) (14)
Coupled learning of action parameters and forward models for manipulation (2016) (14)
Building Kinematic and Dynamic Models of Articulated Objects with Multi-Modal Interactive Perception (2017) (14)
Incremental, sensor-based motion generation for mobile manipulators in unknown, dynamic environments (2015) (13)
Multi-Task Sensorization of Soft Actuators Using Prior Knowledge (2019) (13)
Friction-Induced Velocity Fields for Point Parts Sliding on a Rigid Oscillated Plate (2009) (13)
Active Acoustic Contact Sensing for Soft Pneumatic Actuators (2020) (13)
Elastic network model of learned maintained contacts to predict protein motion (2017) (13)
Learning Omnidirectional Path Following Using Dimensionality Reduction (2008) (12)
Mapping Large Loops with a Single Hand-Held Camera (2008) (12)
Workshop on Research in Robots for Education (2008) (12)
Controlling Shapes of Ensembles of Robots of Finite Size with Nonholonomic Constraints (2009) (12)
Emergent Task Allocation for Mobile Robots (2008) (12)
Active Policy Learning for Robot Planning and Exploration under Uncertainty (2008) (12)
Design of a Bio-inspired Dynamical Vertical Climbing Robot (2008) (12)
NSF/NASA Workshop on Autonomous Mobile Manipulation (AMM) (2005) (11)
Gas Distribution Modeling using Sparse Gaussian Process Mixture Models (2009) (11)
Model-Based Motion Planning (2004) (11)
Blind testing cross-linking/mass spectrometry under the auspices of the 11 th critical assessment of methods of protein structure prediction (CASP11) (2016) (11)
Dimensionality Reduction Using Automatic Supervision for Vision-Based Terrain Learning (2008) (10)
Decomposition-based Motion Planning: Towards Real-time Planning forRobots with Many Degrees of Freedom (2000) (10)
Benchmarking Hand and Grasp Resilience to Dynamic Loads (2020) (10)
Control of Many Agents Using Few Instructions (2008) (10)
Dynamic Modeling of Stick Slip Motion in an Untethered Magnetic Micro-Robot (2009) (10)
RBO Hand 3: A Platform for Soft Dexterous Manipulation (2022) (10)
Cross-modal interpretation of multi-modal sensor streams in interactive perception based on coupled recursion (2017) (9)
Sampling-Based Motion Planning Using Uncertain Knowledge (2006) (9)
Unsupervised Learning of State Representations for Multiple Tasks (2017) (9)
Super-Flexible Skin Sensors Embedded on the Whole Body, Self-Organizing Based on Haptic Interactions (2009) (9)
Analysis of free modeling predictions by RBO aleph in CASP11 (2016) (9)
Model Based Vehicle Tracking for Autonomous Driving in Urban Environments (2009) (9)
From Machine Learning to Robotics: Challenges and Opportunities for Embodied Intelligence (2021) (8)
The Stochastic Motion Roadmap: A Sampling Framework for Planning with Markov Motion Uncertainty (2008) (8)
Safety Evaluation of Physical Human-Robot Interaction via Crash-Testing (2008) (8)
Interactive Perception : Closing the Gap Between Action and Perception (2007) (8)
Lessons from the Amazon Picking Challenge: Four Aspects of Robotic Systems Building (2016) (8)
Physics-Based Selection of Informative Actions for Interactive Perception (2018) (8)
CPG-based Control of a Turtle-like Underwater Vehicle (2009) (7)
Hybrid Motion Planning Using Minkowski Sums (2009) (7)
Decomposition-based Motion Planning: A Framework for Real-time Motion Planning in High-dimensional Spaces. (2001) (7)
Metastable Walking on Stochastically Rough Terrain (2009) (7)
Approximation Schemes for Two-Player Pursuit Evasion Games with Visibility Constraints (2009) (7)
Dynamic Coverage Verification in Mobile Sensor Networks via Switched Higher Order Laplacians (2008) (7)
The Optimization Route to Robotics—and Alternatives (2015) (6)
An Implicit Time-Stepping Method for Multibody Systems with Intermittent Contact (2008) (6)
Closed Loop Control of a Gravity-assisted Underactuated Snake Robot with Application to Aircraft Wing-Box Assembly (2008) (6)
Multi-Sensor Lane Finding in Urban Road Networks (2009) (6)
State Representation Learning with Robotic Priors for Partially Observable Environments (2019) (6)
Target Enumeration via Integration Over Planar Sensor Networks (2009) (6)
Towards a mechanistic view of protein motion (2007) (5)
Intelligent Object Exploration (2012) (5)
Viewing Motion Planning as Disassembly : A Decomposition-Based Approach for Non-Stationary Robots (2005) (5)
Discrete Search Leading Continuous Exploration for Kinodynamic Motion Planning (2008) (5)
An Experimental Study of Exploiting Multipath Fading for Robot Communications (2008) (5)
Efficient Algorithms for Robots with Human-Like Structures and Interactive Haptic Simulation (2002) (4)
Structural Improvement Filtering Strategy for PRM (2009) (4)
Coordination of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Degrees of Freedom in Soft Robotic Grasping (2018) (4)
Sensor-based, task-constrained motion generation under uncertainty (2014) (4)
Robots for the human and interactive simulations (2004) (4)
HyPE: Hybrid Particle-Element Approach for Recursive Bayesian Searching-and-Tracking (2009) (4)
A Numerically Robust LCP Solver for Simulating Articulated Rigid Bodies in Contact (2009) (4)
A Discrete Geometric Optimal Control Framework for Systems with Symmetries (2008) (3)
Guest editorial: special issue on autonomous mobile manipulation (2010) (3)
Fishbone Model for Belt Object Deformation (2008) (3)
No free lunch in ball catching: A comparison of Cartesian and angular representations for control (2018) (3)
Vision-Aided Inertial Navigation for Precise Planetary Landing: Analysis and Experiments (2008) (3)
Dense Mapping for Range Sensors: Efficient Algorithms and Sparse Representations (2008) (3)
Data Association in O(n) for Divide and Conquer SLAM (2008) (3)
A Compliance-centric View of Grasping (2012) (3)
Estimating the Relation of Perception and Action During Interaction (2016) (3)
Physics-Based Selection of Actions That Maximize Motion for Interactive Perception (2017) (3)
Mobile Manipulation [From the Guest Editors] (2012) (3)
Learning to explore the structure of kinematic objects in a virtual environment (2015) (3)
A Low-Cost, Easy-to-Manufacture, Flexible, Multi-Taxel Tactile Sensor and its Application to In-Hand Object Recognition (2021) (3)
Bearing-Only Control Laws For Balanced Circular Formations of Ground Robots (2009) (2)
One Object at a Time: Accurate and Robust Structure From Motion for Robots (2022) (2)
Aleph : leveraging novel information sources for protein structure prediction (2015) (2)
Exploiting Contact for Efficient Motion Planning Under Uncertainty (2017) (2)
Passive and Active Acoustic Sensing for Soft Pneumatic Actuators (2022) (2)
Protein structure prediction with in-cell photo-crosslinking mass spectrometry and deep learning. (2023) (2)
Towards Combining Robotic Algorithms and Machine Learning : End-To-End Learnable Histogram Filters (2017) (2)
Model-Based Search to Determine Minima in Molecular Energy Landscapes (2005) (2)
Passivity-Based Switching Control for Stabilization of Wheeled Mobile Robots (2008) (2)
Towards Real-time Motion Planning in High-dimensional Spaces (2000) (2)
Improved Search for Structure Learning of Large Bayesian Networks (2007) (2)
Four aspects of building robotic systems: lessons from the Amazon Picking Challenge 2015 (2018) (2)
Clustering Sensor Data for Terrain Identification using a Windowless Algorithm (2009) (2)
Proofs and Experiments in Scalable, Near-Optimal Search by Multiple Robots (2009) (2)
Learning From Demonstration Based on Environmental Constraints (2022) (2)
Exploiting structure: a guided approach to sampling-based robot motion planning (2007) (2)
Sliding Mode Formation Tracking Control of a Tractor and Trailer - Car System (2008) (2)
Classifying Dynamic Objects: An Unsupervised Learning Approach (2009) (2)
Towards Motion Plans That React to Contact Events (2010) (2)
Improving High-Dimensional Bayesian Network Structure Learning by Exploiting Search Space Information Technical Report 06-49 (2006) (2)
Achieving robustness by optimizing failure behavior (2017) (2)
Planning and Control of Meso-scale Manipulation Tasks with Uncertainties (2008) (2)
RBO Hand 2 simulation model (2019) (1)
by Mass Spectrometry and Computational Biology (2015) (1)
Integrated Planning and Execution: Elastic Strips (2000) (1)
Context and Feature Sensitive Re-sampling from Discrete Surface Measurements (2008) (1)
“The World Is Its Own Best Model”: Robust Real-World Manipulation Through Online Behavior Selection (2022) (1)
Stochastic Recruitment: A Limited-Feedback Control Policy for Large Ensemble Systems (2009) (1)
Utility-Guided Random Trees (2006) (1)
Distributed Localization of Modular Robot Ensembles (2009) (1)
Robot Manipulation: Sensing and Adapting to the Real World (2008) (1)
Environmental Constraints Exploitation (2019) (1)
Using Recognition to Guide a Robot's Attention (2009) (1)
Predicting Partial Paths from Planning Problem Parameters (2008) (1)
Improving Localization Robustness in Monocular SLAM Using a High-Speed Camera (2009) (1)
Bridging the Gap of Abstraction for Probabilistic Decision Making on a Multi-Modal Service Robot (2009) (1)
A Fast and Practical Algorithm for Generalized Penetration Depth Computation (2008) (1)
09341 Summary - Cognition, Control and Learning for Robot Manipulation in Human Environments (2009) (1)
Robotic Sensor Networks: Principles and Practice (2008) (1)
RBO Hand 2 CAD Files (2016) (1)
Adaptive Body Scheme Models for Robust Robotic Manipulation (2009) (1)
Predicting Protein Structure with Guided Conformation Space Search Technical Report 05-63 (2005) (1)
Analysis of Open-Loop Grasping From Piles (2021) (1)
Abstractions and Algorithms for Cooperative multiple Robot Planar Manipulation (2009) (0)
Learning state representations with robotic priors (2015) (0)
Robotics: Science and Systems III, June 27-30, 2007, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (2008) (0)
Editorial: Special Issue on Robotics: Science and Systems 2005 (2006) (0)
Soft hand teleoperation (2019) (0)
Quantifying Morphological Computation of Soft Robotic Hands (2016) (0)
Learning Compact Relational Models for the Exploration of Articulated Objects (2013) (0)
1 Soft Hands for Reliable Grasping Strategies (2014) (0)
Special Issue on the Sixteenth International Symposium on Robotics Research, 2013 (2015) (0)
Adaptive balancing of exploitation with exploration to improve protein structure prediction (2011) (0)
Prior Data and Kernel Conditional Random Fields for Obstacle Detection (2009) (0)
fMRI-Compatible Robotic Interfaces with Fluidic Actuation (2009) (0)
DomainRank: Improving Biological Data Sets With Domain Knowledge and Google’s PageRank (2022) (0)
Composition of Vector Fields for Multi-Robot Manipulation via Caging (2008) (0)
BS-SLAM: Shaping the World (2008) (0)
Editorial (2020) (0)
Optimal Kinodynamic Motion Planning for 2D Reconfiguration of Self-Reconfigurable Robots (2008) (0)
The Optimization Route to Robotics—and Alternatives (2015) (0)
for the Amazon Picking Challenge (2016) (0)
Passive and Active Acoustic Sensing for Soft Pneumatic Actuators - Code and Data (2020) (0)
Strain sensor placement evaluation (2019) (0)
09341 Abstracts Collection - Cognition, Control and Learning for Robot Manipulation in Human Environments (2009) (0)
EPSILON-CP: using deep learning to combine information from multiple sources for protein contact prediction (2017) (0)
Motion Strategies for Surveillance (2008) (0)
State Representation Learning with Robotic Priors for Partially Observable Environments Data (2019) (0)
An interactive motion perception tool for kindergarteners (and vision scientists) (2023) (0)
Augmentation for Learning From Demonstration with Environmental Constraints (2022) (0)
A Fundamental Tradeoff between Performance and Sensitivity within Haptic Rendering (2008) (0)
Yoking-Based Identification of Learning Behavior in Artificial and Biological Agents (2022) (0)
Special issue on “Robotics: Science and Systems”, 2016 (2018) (0)
Demonstration of the Sensorized RBO Hand 2 : Using Task Knowledge to Efficiently Sensorize Soft Actuators (2017) (0)
Probabilistic Models of Object Geometry for Grasp Planning (2009) (0)
Editorial (2006) (0)
Correction to: Four aspects of building robotic systems: lessons from the Amazon Picking Challenge 2015 (2020) (0)
Motion for Ma 26 . Motion for Manipulation Tasks (2008) (0)
Workshop on Algorithmic Equivalences Between Biological and Robotic Swarms (2008) (0)
A Virtual 2D Tactile Array for Soft Actuators Using Acoustic Sensing (2022) (0)
Where Do We Go From Here? Debates on the Future of Robotics Research at ICRA 2019 [From the Field] (2019) (0)
A Compliance-centric View of Grasping Clemens (2013) (0)
Synthesis of Constrained nR Planar Robots to Reach Five Task Positions (2008) (0)
Guiding Conformation Space Search Towards Biologically Relevant Regions Using All-Atom Energy Evaluations (2007) (0)
Mobile Manipulation - Why Are Humans so Much Better? And How Can We Change That? (2015) (0)
Correction to: Four aspects of building robotic systems: lessons from the Amazon Picking Challenge 2015 (2020) (0)
Optimizing Motion Primitives to Integrate Symbolic and Motion Planning (2012) (0)
First Analysis of Environment Design for Motion Planning with Contact (2017) (0)
Human hand grasping experiments: annotated grasps segments (2019) (0)
Mobile Manipulation [TC Spotlight] (2010) (0)
12 Intelligent Object Exploration (2012) (0)
Special issue on selected papers from Robotics: Science and Systems 2010 (2011) (0)
Human hand grasping experiments: raw grasping data (2019) (0)
Special issue on “Robotics: Science and Systems”, 2016 (2018) (0)
Fast Probabilistic Labeling of City Maps (2009) (0)
Automatic Scheduling for Parallel Forward Dynamics Computation of Open Kinematic Chains (2008) (0)
Vice President, Conference Activities (2008) (0)
Simplex-Tree Based Kinematics of Foldable Objects as Multi-body Systems Involving Loops (2009) (0)
Co-design of Plan and Environment (2019) (0)
Robotics: Science and Systems IV (2018) (0)

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