: The immobilization of non-rigid objects is currently an active research area in robotics. This paper explores the problem by studying the immobilization of serial chains of rigid...
Several french laboratories, joint in the CNRS Project "Control of Legged Robots", have defined a biped robot intented to experiment walking and running gaits. This bipe...
In interactive computer games and computer animation, intuitively controlling the motion of an articulated character is considered as a difficult task. One of the reasons is that, ...
For haptic devices, compensation of the robot's gravity is a frequent strategy with the aim to reduce interaction forces between robot and human in zero-impedance control. How...
Heike Vallery, Alexander Duschau-Wicke, Robert Rie...
Endoscopic surgery, while offering considerable gains for the patient, has created new difficulties for the surgeon. One problem is the fulcrum effect, which causes the movement o...