IJRR
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
Recent research on friction in robot joints and transmission systems has considered meshing friction a position-dependent friction component. However, in this paper we show experi...
IJRR
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
In this paper, we study the isotropic design of two types of spatial parallel manipulators: a three-degrees-of-freedom manipulator and the Stewart
IJRR
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
jr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/21/5-6/475 The online version of this article can be found at: Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: Multimedia Archives c...
IJRR
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
The contribution of this paper is the expansion of the range of possibilities in the analysis, planning, and control of contact tasks. The successful execution of any contact task...
IJRR
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
We describe simple one-dimensional models of passive (no energy input, no control), generally dissipative, vertical hopping and oneball juggling. The central observation is that i...
IJRR
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
This paper presents the time optimal trajectories for differential drive vehicles in the unobstructed plane. The wheel angular velocities are bounded, but may be discontinuous. Th...
IJRR
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
We present kinetic data structures for detecting collisions between a set of polygons that are moving continuously. Unlike classical collision detection methods that rely on bound...
IJRR
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
Exact cellular decompositions represent a robot's free space by dividing it into regions with simple structure such that the sum of the regions fills the free space. These de...
IJRR
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
The goal of coverage path planning is to determine a path that passes a detector over all points in an environment. This work prescribes a provably complete coverage path planner ...