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ICRA
2006
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Motion Planning for Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Linear Objects
— Research on robotic manipulation has mainly focused on manipulating rigid objects so far. However, many important application domains require manipulating deformable objects, e...
Mitul Saha, Pekka Isto
IROS
2006
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Smooth Collision Avoidance: Practical Issues in Dynamic Humanoid Motion
— In this paper we address smooth and collision-free whole-body motion planning for humanoid robots. A two-stage iterative planning framework is introduced where geometric motion...
Eiichi Yoshida, Claudia Esteves, Takeshi Sakaguchi...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Planning for Steerable Bevel-tip Needle Insertion Through 2D Soft Tissue with Obstacles
— We explore motion planning for a new class of highly flexible bevel-tip medical needles that can be steered to previously unreachable targets in soft tissue. Planning for thes...
Ron Alterovitz, Kenneth Y. Goldberg, Allison M. Ok...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
151views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
A framework for modeling steady turning of robotic fish
— In this paper we present a novel framework for computing the steady turning motion of a robotic fish undergoing periodic body and/or tail deformation. Taking the turning radiu...
Qingsong Hu, Dawn R. Hedgepeth, Lihong Xu, Xiaobo ...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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13 years 3 months ago
Toward automated tissue retraction in robot-assisted surgery
—Robotic surgical assistants are enhancing physician performance, enabling physicians to perform more delicate and precise minimally invasive surgery. However, these devices are ...
Sachin Patil, Ron Alterovitz