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ICRA
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
2010
IEEE
— This paper presents a soft robotic platform that exhibits peristaltic locomotion. The design principle is based on the unique antagonistic arrangement of radial/circular and lo...
ROBIO
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
- Suddenly occurring collisions or unintentional motions represent a high safety risk in robotics and must be prevented. Especially for humanoid robots, the influence of disturbanc...
TROB
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
—A novel approach toward construction of robots is based on a concentric combination of precurved elastic tubes. By rotation and extension of the tubes with respect to each other...
IROS
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
— In this paper, a generic approach to optimize the design of an actuated carrier for the DLR multi-arm surgical system is presented. The carrier is attached to the ceiling of th...
HYBRID
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2001
Springer
In this work we present a novel control design methodology for under-actuated mechanical systems. As part of the design process we use the reachability analysis tool d/dt [ABDM99,D...