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We propose a novel performance metric for articulated robots with distributed directional sensors called the sensor observability analysis (SOA). These robot-mounted distributed directional sensors (e.g., joint torque sensors) change their…
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Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) has been a potent technique to handle the lack of annotations in the target domain, particularly in semantic segmentation task. This study introduces a different UDA scenarios where the target domain…