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ICRA
2005
IEEE
134views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
13 years 11 months ago
Local Minimum of Elastic Potential Energy on Hemispherical Soft Fingertip
— This paper proposes a new contact deformation model between a hemispherical soft fingertip and an object. First, we develop our proposed contact model, in which an elastic pot...
Takahiro Inoue, Shinichi Hirai
CRV
2007
IEEE
101views Robotics» more  CRV 2007»
13 years 9 months ago
Energy Efficient Robot Rendezvous
We examine the problem of finding a single meeting location for a group of heterogeneous autonomous mobile robots, such that the total system cost of traveling to the rendezvous i...
Pawel Zebrowski, Yaroslav Litus, Richard T. Vaugha...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
127views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 4 months ago
Coordinating collective locomotion in an amorphous modular robot
— Modular robots can potentially assemble into a wide range of configurations to locomote in different environments. However, designing locomotion strategies for each configura...
Chih-Han Yu, Justin Werfel, Radhika Nagpal
CDC
2009
IEEE
148views Control Systems» more  CDC 2009»
13 years 9 months ago
An adaptive artificial potential function approach for geometric sensing
In this paper, a novel artificial potential function is proposed for planning the path of a robotic sensor in a partially observed environment containing multiple obstacles and mul...
Guoxian Zhang, Silvia Ferrari
GECCO
2007
Springer
289views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
13 years 12 months ago
A discrete particle swarm optimization algorithm for the generalized traveling salesman problem
Dividing the set of nodes into clusters in the well-known traveling salesman problem results in the generalized traveling salesman problem which seeking a tour with minimum cost p...
Mehmet Fatih Tasgetiren, Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan,...