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ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Mechanism Synthesis Theory and the Design of Robots
The synthesis theory for spatial linkage systems can be formulated in a way that is compatible with the geometric design of serial and parallel chain robotic systems. Mechanism de...
J. Michael McCarthy
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Structural Design and Analysis of a New Semi-Direct Drive Robot Arm: Theory and Experiment
This paper reports the mechanical design, structural analysis, and experimental veri cation of a new high performance semi-direct drive robot arm. A design optimization methodolog...
Jaydeep Roy, Randal P. Goldberg, Louis L. Whitcomb
HRI
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Planning as an architectural control mechanism
We describe recent work on PECAS, an architecture for intelligent robotics that supports multi-modal interaction. Categories and Subject Descriptors I.2.8 [Computing Methodologies...
Nick Hawes, Michael Brenner, Kristoffer Sjö&o...
ICRA
1998
IEEE
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Design for Tolerance of Electro-Mechanical Assemblies
Tolerancing decisions can profoundly impact the quality and cost of electro-mechanical assemblies. Existing approaches to tolerance analysis and synthesis in design entail detailed...
Rachuri Sudarsan, Y. Narahari, Kevin W. Lyons, Ram...
RSS
2007
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13 years 6 months ago
Synthesis of Constrained nR Planar Robots to Reach Five Task Positions
— In this paper, we design planar nR serial chains that provide one degree-of-freedom movement for an end-effector through five arbitrarily specified task positions. These chai...
Gim Song Soh, J. Michael McCarthy