The LEGO Mindstorms robots provide an excellent introductory platform for students to learn computer programming. However, a major drawback is students’ lack of access to robots...
This paper is devoted to the problem of nonlinear robust control design for Underwater Vehicle/Manipulator (UVM) systems composed of a freefloating platform equipped with a robot ...
This paper is part of the development process of a microsurgical "cooperating" assistant. To evaluate its applicability to augment fine surgical motions, we test precisio...
Rajesh Kumar 0001, Tushar M. Goradia, Aaron C. Bar...
Abstract— This paper discusses the design principles and philosophy of the BiMASC, a biped with Mechanically Adjustable Series Compliance which incorporates tuned mechanical leg ...
Jonathan W. Hurst, Joel E. Chestnutt, Alfred A. Ri...
We consider deployment problems where a mobile robotic network must optimize its configuration in a distributed way in order to minimize a steady-state cost function that depends ...