Thesis

  • Compliant robot motion: from path planning or human demonstration to force controlled task execution.
    Ph.D. dissertation, December 2006
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  • Behavior based execution of mobile manipulation tasks (Dutch only).
    Master thesis, July 2002
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  • Journal Publications

  • Integration of Planning and Execution in Force Controlled Compliant Motion.
    Wim Meeussen, Ernesto Staffetti, Jing Xiao, Herman Bruyninckx, Joris De Schutter.
    In Robotics and Autonomous Systems, May 2008
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  • Bayesian Contact State Segmentation for Programming by Human Demonstration in Compliant Motion Tasks.
    Wim Meeussen, Johan Rutgeerts, Klaas Gadeyne, Herman Bruyninckx, Joris De Schutter.
    In Transactions on Robotics, April 2007
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  • Building Blocks for SLAM in Autonomous Compliant Motion
    Herman Bruyninckx, Joris De Schutter, Tine Lefebvre, Klaas Gadeyne, Peter Soeterns, Johan Rutgeerts, Peter Slaets and Wim Meeussen.
    In Symposium of Robotics Research, 2003
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  • Conference Publications

  • Multi-Resolution particle filter estimation, applied to object recognition in an office environment.
    Tinne De Laet, Wim Meeussen, Joris De Schutter, Herman Bruyninckx.
    Submitted to IROS 2007, San Diego, CA
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  • Modelling of second order polynomial surface contacts for programming by human demonstration.
    Peter Slaeat, Wim Meeussen, Herman Bruyninckx, Joris De Schutter.
    Accepted for publication at ICAR 2007, Jeju, Korea
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  • Particle Filters for Hybrid Event Sensor Fusion with 3D Vision and Force.
    Wim Meeussen, Johan Rutgeerts, Klaas Gadeyne, Herman Bruyninckx, Joris De Schutter.
    MFI 2006, Heidelberg, Germany
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  • Model Based Position-Force-Vision Sensor Fusion for Robot Control.
    Ruben Smits, Herman Bruyninckx, Johan Baeten, Peter Slaets, Joris De Schutter.
    MFI 2006, Heidelberg, Germany
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  • Using Bayesian Filtering to Simultaneous Parameter and State Estimation in Robot Manipulator Programming by Demonstration.
    Stefano Cabras, Maria Eugenia Castellanos, Wim Meeussen, Raquel Montes and Ernesto Staffetti.
    Valencia ISBA 2006, World Meeting on Bayesian Statistics Benidorm, Spain
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  • Bayesian Contact State Segmentation for Programming by Human Demonstration in Compliant Motion Tasks
    Wim Meeussen, Johan Rutgeerts, Klaas Gadeyne, Herman Bruyninckx, Joris De Schutter.
    ISER 2006, Rio, Brazil
    International Foundation of Robotics Research, student fellowship award.

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  • Integration of Planning and Execution in Force Controlled Compliant Motion
    Wim Meeussen, Joris De Schutter, Herman Bruyninckx, Jing Xiao and Ernesto Staffetti.
    IROS 2005, Edminton, Alberta, Canada, August 2005
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  • A Demonstration Tool with Kalman Filter Data Processing for Robot Programming by Human Demonstration
    Johan Rutgeerts, Joris De Schutter, Herman Bruyninckx and Wim Meeussen.
    IROS 2005, Edminton, Alberta, Canada, August 2005
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  • A New Formalism to Characterize Contact States Involving Articulated Polyhedral Objects
    Ernesto Staffetti, Wim Meeussen and Jing Xiao.
    ICRA 2005, Barcelona Spain, June 2005
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  • On the Automatic Verification of Contact States Taking into Account Manipulator Constraints
    Wim Meeussen, Jing Xiao, Joris De Schutter, Herman Bruyninckx and Ernesto Staffetti.
    ICRA 2004, New Orleans LA, April 2004
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