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ISER
1995
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Stiffness Isn't Everything
Most robot designers make the mechanical interface between an actuator and its load as stiff as possible[9][10]. This makes sense in traditional position-controlled systems, becau...
Gill A. Pratt, Matthew M. Williamson, Peter Dilwor...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
The OmniTread OT-4 serpentine robot
Serpentine robots are slender, multi-segmented vehicles designed to provide greater mobility than conventional mobile robots. Serpentine robots are ideally suited for urban search...
Johann Borenstein, Adam Borrell
ICRA
1998
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
DLR's Multisensory Articulated Hand - Part II: The Parallel Torque/Position Control System
This paper gives a brief description of feedback control systems engaged in DLR's recently developed multisensory 4finger robot hand. The work is concentrated on constructing...
Hong Liu, Peter Meusel, Jörg Butterfaß,...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Simple, Robust Autonomous Grasping in Unstructured Environments
—The inherent uncertainty associated with unstructured grasping tasks makes establishing a successful grasp difficult. Traditional approaches to this problem involve hands that a...
Aaron M. Dollar, Robert D. Howe
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Providing dynamically changeable physical buttons on a visual display
Physical buttons have the unique ability to provide lowattention and vision-free interactions through their intuitive tactile clues. Unfortunately, the physicality of these interf...
Chris Harrison, Scott E. Hudson