ICRA
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
1999
IEEE
We have previously developed a brachiation controller that allows a two degree of freedom robot to swing from handhold to handhold on a horizontal ladder with evenly space rungs a...
ICRA
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
1999
IEEE
This paper describes a new method for improving the accuracy of range information using low resolution ultrasonic sensors mounted on a mobile robot. These sensors emit ultra-sound...
ICRA
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
1999
IEEE
Cobots are capable of producing virtual surfaces of high quality, using mechanical transmission elements as their basic element in place of conventional motors. Most cobots built ...
ICRA
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
1999
IEEE
ICRA
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
1999
IEEE
This paper presents a novel approach to on-line, robotmotion planning for moving-object interception. A hybrid scheme, which combines a navigation-based technique with a conventio...
ICRA
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
1999
IEEE
Important robotic tasks could be most effectively done by powerful and accurate manipulators. However, high accuracy is generally unattainable in manipulators capable of producing...
ICRA
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
1999
IEEE
Previous grasp quality research is mainly theoretical, and has assumed that contact types and positions are given, in order to preserve the generality of the proposed quality meas...
ICRA
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
1999
IEEE
We present a novel approach we call partitioning where the robot's degrees- of-freedom (D OF) are categorized into two classes based on joint kinematics and dynamics to desig...
ICRA
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
1999
IEEE
There has been an increasing interest in developing computational theories of autonomous robots. However the previous work has focused on intelligent modifications to internal com...
ICRA
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
1999
IEEE
This paper describes a mobile manipulator that uses its wheels for manipulation as well as locomotion. This robot, named the mobipulator, looks like a small car with four independ...