— During a complete running stride, which involves significant periods of flight during which no legs are contacting the ground, a quadruped cannot employ static stability tech...
— Motivated by an error-recovery locomotion problem, we propose a control technique for a complex mechanical system by decomposing the system dynamics into a collection of simpli...
Ravi Balasubramanian, Alfred A. Rizzi, Matthew T. ...
– Self-reconfigurable robots are modular robots that can autonomously change their shape and size to meet specific operational demands. Recently, there has been a great interest ...
— In appearance based robot localization a new image is matched with every image in the database. In this paper we describe how to reduce the number of images in this database wi...
— This paper addresses the problem of naturally looking and energy efficient walk of biped humanoids. We presuppose that such walk requires motion control capability around kine...
Kentaro Takahashi, M. Noda, Dragomir N. Nenchev, Y...
—We present experimental results of thrust produced by a robotic propulsor, the design of which is inspired by the ribbon fin of the South American black ghost knifefish (Apteron...
Michael Epstein, J. Edward Colgate, Malcolm A. Mac...
Abstract— This paper presents a new hybrid decoupled visionbased control scheme valid for the entire class of central catadioptric sensors (including conventional perspective cam...
Hicham Hadj-Abdelkader, Youcef Mezouar, Nicolas An...
— This paper presents a sensor fusion model developed for the 2005 Grand Challenge competition, an autonomous ground vehicle race across the Mojave desert organized by DARPA1 . T...
Alberto Broggi, Stefano Cattani, Pier Paolo Porta,...
— We present an interpolation-based planning and replanning algorithm that is able to produce direct, lowcost paths through three-dimensional environments. Our algorithm builds u...