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CEC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A biologically inspired approach for the control of the hand
The control of the hand in primate species is characterized by a high dimensionality, due to the large number of joints in the fingers. In this study we present how its manipulatio...
Emmanouil Hourdakis, Michail Maniadakis, Panos E. ...
DAGSTUHL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
A Human-Like Robot Hand and Arm with Fluidic Muscles: Biologically Inspired Construction and Functionality
Humanoid robots are fascinating from two points of view, firstly their construction and secondly because they lend life to inanimate objects. The combination of biology and robots ...
Ivo Boblan, Rudolf Bannasch, Hartmut Schwenk, Fran...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
179views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
Biological stiffness control strategies for the Anatomically Correct Testbed (ACT) hand
— With the goal of developing biologically inspired manipulation strategies for an anthropomorphic hand, we investigated how the human central nervous system utilizes the hands r...
Ravi Balasubramanian, Yoky Matsuoka
ICRA
2007
IEEE
195views Robotics» more  ICRA 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
A Biologically Inspired Approach to the Coordination of Hexapedal Gait
— This paper presents a method for the control of locomotion in a robot hexapod. The approach is based on the WalkNet structure, which in turn is based on the neural control stru...
Keith W. Wait, Michael Goldfarb
GECCO
1999
Springer
167views Optimization» more  GECCO 1999»
13 years 9 months ago
A Biologically Inspired Fitness Function for Robotic Grasping
This paper describes the innovative use of genetic programming (GP) to solve the grasp synthesis problem for multifingered robot hands. The goal of our algorithm is to select a Ò...
J. Jaime Fernandez, Ian D. Walker