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ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Emotional Architecture for the Humanoid Robot Head ROMAN
— Humanoid robots as assistance or educational robots is an important research topic in the field of robotics. Especially the communication of those robots with a human operator...
Jochen Hirth, Norbert Schmitz, Karsten Berns
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Toward Active Cannulas: Miniature Snake-Like Surgical Robots
— We have developed a new class of continuously flexible snake-like robots, called active cannulas, that consist of several telescoping pre-curved superelastic tubes. The device...
Robert J. Webster III, Allison M. Okamura, Noah J....
IROS
2007
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
The effect of joint elasticity on bilateral teleoperation
— In applications such as space and surgical robotics, the use of thin, lightweight manipulators and cable-driven endeffectors results in flexibility of the manipulator. In bila...
Mahdi Tavakoli, Robert D. Howe
ACHI
2010
IEEE
14 years 5 days ago
A Simulation Framework for Human-Robot Interaction
Abstract—The development of human-robot interaction scenarios is a strongly situation-dependent as well as an extremely dynamic task. Humans interacting with the robot directly r...
Norbert Schmitz, Jochen Hirth, Karsten Berns
HAPTICS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Soft Finger Model with Adaptive Contact Geometry for Grasping and Manipulation Tasks
This paper presents a method for building analytical contact models for soft fingers. Friction constraints are derived based on general expressions for non-planar contacts of ela...
Matei T. Ciocarlie, Claire Lackner, Peter K. Allen