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Programming environments for manipulators
Architetture e programmazione di sistemi
robotici flessibili: Verso un ambiente di supporto alla
programmazione di una mano robotica
Rapporto Progetto Finalizzato Informatica e Calcolo Parallelo n.52,
Ottobre 1991. (in italian)
Development of a Programming Environment for
Intelligent Robotics
ISMIS'93, Seventh
Int. Symposium on Methodologies For Intelligent Systems
(also LNAI 69, J.Komorowski, Z.W.Ras eds., Springer-Verlag),
Trondheim, Norway.
A Multi-Agent Framework and Programming
Environment for Autonomous Robotics
ICRA '94,
IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation,
S.Diego, May 1994.
Ragionamento, autonomia e manipolazione
robotica: un ambiente integrato di sperimentazione
Workshop del Gruppo di lavoro Robotica, Convegno AI*IA, Parma, Settembre 1994.
(in italian)
Integrating Tools for High-Level Programming
of Robot Manipulation Tasks
Teleman Workshop, July 1995, Holland.
Experiences on prototyping robot manipulation tasks:
putting a hybrid multiagent architecture at work
ICAR'95, 7th Int. Conference on Advanced Robotics, S. Feliu de Guixols, Barcelona, September 1995.
Haptic object recognition
Investigation of Polyhedral Shape
Representations and Connectionist Techniques in Haptic Object
Recognition
IROS '94, IEEE/RSJ Intelligent Robots and Systems, Munich, September 1994.
Haptic Object Recognition with a Dextrous Hand
Based on Volumetric Shape Representations
IEEE Int. Conf. on Multisensor Fusion and
Integration for Intelligent Systems, Las Vegas, October 1994.
On the Robustness of Haptic Object Recognition Based
on Polyhedral Shape Representations
IROS '95, IEEE/RSJ
Intelligent Robots and Systems, Pittsburgh, August 1995.
Efficient Exploration and Recognition of
Convex Objects Based on Haptic Perception
ICRA '96, IEEE
Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, , Minneapolis, April 1996.
Pose-Independent Recognition of Convex Objects
from Sparse Tactile Data
ICRA '97, IEEE
Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Albuquerque, April 1997.
Grasp synthesis for a dextrous hand
Grasp Synthesis for a Dextrous Robotic Hand \\
Using a Multi-Layer Perceptron
MELECON '91, Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference, Lubljana, June 1991.
A Hybrid Architecture for Knowledge-Based
Synthesis of Robot Grasps
IROS '93, IEEE/RSJ Intelligent Robots and Systems,
Yokohama, Japan.
Mobile robots
Mobile Robot Navigation in Enclosed
Large-Scale Space
IEEE Int. Conf. on Industrial Electronics, Bologna,
September 1994.
Navigazione di Robot Mobili in Ambiente Strutturato
Basata su Visione Artificiale
Tesi di Laurea, Luglio 1996. (in italian)
Manufacturing & Petri Nets
On Assembly
Sequence Planning using Petri Nets
IEEE International
Symposium on Assembly and Task Planning, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
Agosto 1995.