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Robotics Journal Club
Organizer: Daniela Rus Mailing List: robotics-journal-club
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Spring 2005: the Journal Club meets on
Wednesdays at 11am in room 32-397.
suggested reading list
summer and fall 2004 archives

March 30, 2005
 | O. Khatib, K. Yokoi, O. Brock, K. Chang, and A. Casal (1999) Robots
in Human Environments: Basic Autonomous Capabilities, in the
International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 18 no. 7, pp. 684-696
pdf |
Related papers (optional
reading):
 | S.R. Buss (2004) Introduction to Inverse Kinematics with Jacobian
Transpose, Pseudoinverse and Damped Least Squares Methods, unpublished
local pdf |
 | O. Khatib, L. Sentis, J. Park, and J. Warren (2004) Whole-Body
Dynamic Behavior and Control of Human-Like Robots, in the
International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, vol. 1 no. 1, pp. 29-43 local
pdf |
 | O. Khatib, O. Brock, K. Chang, F. Conti, D. Ruspini, and L. Sentis
(2002) Robotics and Interactive Simulation, in Communications of the
ACM, vol. 45 no. 3, pp. 46-51 local
pdf |
 | O. Brock, O. Khatib, and S. Viji (2002) Task-Consistent Obstacle
Avoidance and Motion Behavior for Mobile Manipulation, in Proceedings
of IEEE ICRA local
pdf |
 | O. Brock and O. Khatib (2000) Real-Time Replanning in
High-Dimensional Configuration Spaces Using Sets of Homotopic Paths,
in Proceedings of IEEE ICRA local
pdf |
 | O. Brock and O. Khatib (1998) Executing Motion Plans for Robots with
Many Degrees of Freedom in Dynamic Environments, in Proceedings of
IEEE ICRA local pdf |
 | O. Khatib (1987) A Unified Approach for Motion and Force Control of
Robot Manipulators: The Operational Space Formulation, in IEEE Journal
of Robotics and Automation, vol. RA-3 no. 1 local
pdf |
Presenter: Marty Vona

March 9, 2005 climbing
robot
 | T. Bretl, J.C. Latombe, and S. Rock (2003) Towards Autonomous
Free-Climbing Robots, in Proc. Int. Symp. of Robotics Research (ISRR),
Sienna, Italy. off-site
pdf |
 | T. Bretl, S. Lall, J.C. Latombe, and S. Rock (2004) Multi-Step
Motion Planning for Free-Climbing Robots, in Workshop on the
Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), Utrecht/Zeit, The
Netherlands. off-site
pdf (optional) |
More reading on the subject and videos of LEMUR IIb climbing on Tim
Bretl's webpage: http://sun-valley.stanford.edu/~tbretl/
Presenter: Paulina Varshavskaya

March 2, 2005 discussion
continued from last week
 | J.-M. Ame, C. Rivault, and J.-L. Deneubourg (2004) Cockroach
aggregation based on strain odour recognition, in Animal Behaviour 68,
pp. 793-801 local pdf |
 | R. Jeanson, C. Rivault, J.-L. Deneubourg, S. Blanco, R. Fournier,
Ch. Jost, ang G. Theraulaz (2005) Self-organized aggregation in
cockroaches, in Animal Behaviour 69, pp. 169-180 local
pdf |
Presenters: Mac Schwager and Ajay
Deshpande

February 23, 2005
 | José Halloy, Jean-Marc Amé, and Jean-Louis Deneubourg () Leurre:
Artificial Life Control in Mixed Societies, Behavioural Model
(Deliverable D1.1:1) |
Presenter: Mac Schwager

February 16, 2005
 | H. Lamure and D. Michelucci (1996) Solving Geometric Constraints by
Homotopy, in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
2:1 local pdf |
Presenter: Marty Vona

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