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EVOW
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Evolving Motion of Robots with Muscles
The objective of this work is to investigate how effective smart materials are for generating the motion of a robot. Because of the unique method of locomotion, an evolutionary alg...
Siavash Haroun Mahdavi, Peter J. Bentley
ICRA
1999
IEEE
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Shape Memory Alloy Actuated Robot Prostheses: Initial Experiments
This paper describes the objectives of this project, which are to design artificial limbs that are lightweight, compact and dexterous, that mimic human anatomy and maintain a high...
Charles Pfeiffer, Kathryn J. De Laurentis, Constan...
ROBIO
2006
IEEE
139views Robotics» more  ROBIO 2006»
13 years 10 months ago
Biologically Inspired Reflex Based Stabilization Control of a Humanoid Robot with Artificial SMA Muscles
- Suddenly occurring collisions or unintentional motions represent a high safety risk in robotics and must be prevented. Especially for humanoid robots, the influence of disturbanc...
Robert Kratz, Sebastian Klug, Maximilian Stelzer, ...
IROS
2007
IEEE
128views Robotics» more  IROS 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
EMG-based teleoperation of a robot arm using low-dimensional representation
Abstract— In robot teleoperation scenarios, the interface between the user and the robot is undoubtedly of high importance. In this paper, electromyographic (EMG) signals from mu...
Panagiotis K. Artemiadis, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
ICRA
2002
IEEE
95views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
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Tendon Arrangement and Muscle Force Requirements for Humanlike Force Capabilities in a Robotic Finger
Human motion can provide a rich source of examples for use in robot grasping and manipulation. Adapting human examples to a robot manipulator is a difficult problem, however, in ...
Nancy S. Pollard, Richards C. Gilbert