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ASIAMS
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 days ago
Simulation of Soft Bodies with Pressure Force and the Implicit Method
The implicit approach can be used to efficiently model realistically deformable objects for large constraints such as stiffness or time. In soft bodies with pressure forces, model...
Jaruwan Mesit, Ratan K. Guha
CVPR
2007
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Physics-Based Person Tracking Using Simplified Lower-Body Dynamics
We introduce a physics-based model for 3D person tracking. Based on a biomechanical characterization of lower-body dynamics, the model captures important physical properties of bi...
Marcus A. Brubaker, David J. Fleet, Aaron Hertzman...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
136views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
13 years 11 months ago
Polychaete-like Undulatory Robotic Locomotion
- Polychaete annelid worms provide a biological paradigm of versatile locomotion and effective motion control, adaptable to a large variety of unstructured environmental conditions...
Dimitris P. Tsakiris, Michael Sfakiotakis, Arianna...
ICRA
2000
IEEE
85views Robotics» more  ICRA 2000»
13 years 10 months ago
TerminatorBot: A Robot with Dual-Use Arms for Manipulation and Locomotion
A novel, miniature robot designed to use its two arms for both manipulation and locomotion is described. Intended for military and civilian surveillance and search-and-rescue appl...
Richard M. Voyles
AVSS
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 days ago
Camera auto-calibration from articulated motion
This paper presents a novel auto-calibration method from unconstrained human body motion. It relies on the underlying biomechanical constraints associated with human bipedal locom...
Paul Kuo, Jean-Christophe Nebel, Dimitrios Makris