Search Results - "Kuffner, J."

Randomized Kinodynamic Planning by LaValle, Steven M., Kuffner, James J.

“…This paper presents the first randomized approach to kinodynamic planning (also known as trajectory planning or trajectory design). The task is to determine…”
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Safety assessment of robot trajectories for navigation in uncertain and dynamic environments by Althoff, Daniel, Kuffner, James J., Wollherr, Dirk, Buss, Martin

“…This paper presents a probabilistic framework for reasoning about the safety of robot trajectories in dynamic and uncertain environments with imperfect…”
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Dynamically-Stable Motion Planning for Humanoid Robots by Kuffner, James J, Kagami, Satoshi, Nishiwaki, Koichi, Inaba, Masayuki, Inoue, Hirochika

“…We present an approach to path planning for humanoid robots that computes dynamically-stable, collision-free trajectories from full-body posture goals. Given a…”
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Physically Based Grasp Quality Evaluation Under Pose Uncertainty by Junggon Kim, Iwamoto, Kunihiro, Kuffner, James J., Ota, Yasuhiro, Pollard, Nancy S.

“…Although there has been great progress in robot grasp planning, automatically generated grasp sets using a quality metric are not as robust as human-generated…”
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Planning and executing navigation among movable obstacles by Stilman, Mike, Nishiwaki, Koichi, Kagami, Satoshi, Kuffner, James J.

“…This paper explores autonomous locomotion, reaching, grasping and manipulation for the domain of navigation among movable obstacles (NAMO). The robot perceives…”
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Guaranteeing motion safety for robots by Fraichard, Thierry, Kuffner, James J.

“…Issue Title: Special Issue: Motion Safety for Robots…”
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Autonomous behaviors for interactive vehicle animations by Go, Jared, Vu, Thuc D., Kuffner, James J.

“…We present a method for synthesizing animations of autonomous space, water, and land-based vehicles in games or other interactive simulations. Controlling the…”
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Footstep Planning for the Honda ASIMO Humanoid by Chestnutt, J., Lau, M., Cheung, G., Kuffner, J., Hodgins, J., Kanade, T.

“…Despite the recent achievements in stable dynamic walking for many humanoid robots, relatively little navigation autonomy has been achieved. In particular, the…”
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Space-filling trees: A new perspective on incremental search for motion planning by Kuffner, J. J., LaValle, S. M.

“…This paper introduces space-filling trees and analyzes them in the context of sampling-based motion planning. Space-filling trees are analogous to…”
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Efficient prioritized inverse kinematic solutions for redundant manipulators by Guilamo, L., Kuffner, J., Nishiwaki, K., Kagami, S.

“…In this paper, we explore preprocessing techniques aimed at efficiently mapping the workspace to the configuration space for redundant manipulators. Exploiting…”
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Effective sampling and distance metrics for 3D rigid body path planning by Kuffner, J.J.

“…Important implementation issues in rigid body path planning are often overlooked. In particular, sampling-based motion planning algorithms typically require a…”
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Using visual odometry to create 3D maps for online footstep planning by Ozawa, R., Takaoka, Y., Kida, Y., Nishiwaki, K., Chestnutt, J., Kuffner, J., Kagami, J., Mizoguch, H., Inoue, H.

“…This paper describes an online system for footstep planning using a 3D map reconstructed by visual odometry. This system consists of two key components: 3D…”
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Vision-guided humanoid footstep planning for dynamic environments by Michel, P., Chestnutt, J., Kuffner, J., Kanade, T.

“…Despite the stable walking capabilities of modern biped humanoid robots, their ability to autonomously and safely navigate obstacle-filled, unpredictable…”
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Motion planning for humanoid robots under obstacle and dynamic balance constraints by Kuffner, J., Nishiwaki, K., Kagami, S., Inaba, M., Inoue, H.

“…We present an approach to path planning for humanoid robots that computes dynamically-stable, collision-free trajectories from full-body posture goals. Given a…”
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Interactive manipulation planning for animated characters by Kuffner, J., Latombe, J.-C.

“…Presents a brief overview of an algorithm for interactively animating object grasping and manipulation tasks for human figures. The technique is designed to…”
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RRT-connect: An efficient approach to single-query path planning by Kuffner, J.J., LaValle, S.M.

“…A simple and efficient randomized algorithm is presented for solving single-query path planning problems in high-dimensional configuration spaces. The method…”
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A Feedback Controller for Biped Humanoids that Can Counteract Large Perturbations During Gait by Komura, T., Leung, H., Shunsuke Kudoh, Kuffner, J.

“…In this paper, we propose a new method for biped humanoids to compensate for large amounts of angular momentum induced by strong external perturbations applied…”
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Humanoid motion planning for dual-arm manipulation and re-grasping tasks by Vahrenkamp, N., Berenson, D., Asfour, T., Kuffner, J., Dillmann, R.

“…In this paper, we present efficient solutions for planning motions of dual-arm manipulation and re-grasping tasks. Motion planning for such tasks on humanoid…”
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Navigation among movable obstacles: real-time reasoning in complex environments by Stilman, M., Kuffner, J.

“…In this paper, we address the problem of navigation among movable obstacles (NAMO): a practical extension to navigation for humanoids and other dexterous…”
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Randomized kinodynamic planning by LaValle, S.M., Kuffner, J.J.

“…The paper presents a state-space perspective on the kinodynamic planning problem, and introduces a randomized path planning technique that computes…”
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