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ICRA
1998
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
1998
IEEE
This paper addresses the problem of reducing the hysteresis found in the actuation of most smart materials. They are divided in two groups: systems with no saturation (e.g. piezoe...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2002
IEEE
This paper presents a liquid-fuel powered pneumatic actuator appropriate for human-scale autonomous robotics. The motivation for this work is the development of a lightweight actu...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
2011
ACM
This paper presents computationally and physically augmented desktop objects - “Things that hover” - that is capable of moving autonomously on desktop, and discusses about tec...
ISER
1995
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
1995
Springer
Most robot designers make the mechanical interface between an actuator and its load as stiff as possible[9][10]. This makes sense in traditional position-controlled systems, becau...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
For complex robotic tasks (manipulation, locomotion, haptics, ...), the lack of knowledge of precise interaction models, the difficulties to precisely measure the task associated ...