ICRA
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
— We suggest a new navigation approach to mobile robots, within a nonlinear model predictive control framework where a navigation function is used as a control Lyapunov function....
ICRA
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
— We study a fully distributed, reactive algorithm for deployment and maintenance of a mobile communication backbone that provides an area around a network gateway with wireless ...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
ICRA
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
— Recently, cognitive psychologists and others have turned their attention to the formerly neglected study of shadows, and the information they purvey. These studies show that th...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
— We have investigated the deformation of a soft fingertip when it slides. This process was first simulated using the non-linear Finite Element Analysis (FEA) method. Based on ...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
— Most of robotic soft pads studied so far were made with a thick layer of homogeneous material shaped around a rigid core; their behavior has been widely investigated in the lit...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
— Planar Catadioptric Stereo vision sensors (PCS) combine a pinhole camera with two or more planar mirrors. PCS have recently received an increasing attention since a stereo view...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
Abstract—This paper presents a system for in situ atmospheric sensing using an aerial robot system in the presence of a strong wind field. The geostatistical concept of the vari...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
— Unlike active force closure, which is a property for the multi-finger robotic hand grasping, passive force closure are involved in the grasping systems with constraining devic...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
— This paper deals with the problem of bilateral haptic control in nanorobotics. At this scale, a human operator cannot interact directly with objects. He needs special tools man...