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ICRA
2009
IEEE
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13 years 2 months ago
Robust hitting with dynamics shaping
The present paper proposes the motion planning based on "the dynamics shaping" for a robotic arm to hit the target robustly toward the desired direction, of which the con...
Tasuku Yamawaki, Yusuke Tsuzuki, Masahito Yashima
ROBOTICA
2002
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13 years 4 months ago
The Weston wheelchair mounted assistive robot - the design story
Robotic technology can be used in several ways to benefit people with disabilities. This paper describes the mounting of a robotic arm to a powered wheelchair to assist disabled u...
Michael Hillman, Karen Hagan, Sean Hagan, Jill Jep...
PRESENCE
2000
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13 years 4 months ago
Control Design and Task Performance in Endoscopic Tele-Operation
Endoscopic surgery, while offering considerable gains for the patient, has created new difficulties for the surgeon. One problem is the fulcrum effect, which causes the movement o...
Ori Ben-Porat, Moshe Shoham, Joachim Meyer
AROBOTS
2004
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13 years 4 months ago
Integration of a Rehabilitation Robotic System (KARES II) with Human-Friendly Man-Machine Interaction Units
In this paper, we report some important results of design and evaluation of a wheelchair-based robotic arm system, named as KARES II (KAIST Rehabilitation Engineering Service Syste...
Zeungnam Bien, Myung Jin Chung, Pyung Hun Chang, D...
VISAPP
2007
13 years 5 months ago
Extraction of multi-modal object representations in a robot vision system
We introduce one module in a cognitive system that learns the shape of objects by active exploration. More specifically, we propose a feature tracking scheme that makes use of the...
Nicolas Pugeault, Emre Baseski, Dirk Kraft, Floren...
IJCAI
1989
13 years 5 months ago
Motion Planning of Multi-Joint Robotic Arm with Topological Dimension Reduction Method
This paper explores the realization of robotic arm motion planning, especially Findpath Problem, which is a basic motion planning problem that arises in the development of robotic...
Bo Zhang, Ling Zhang, Tian Zhang
RSCTC
2000
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Computer Vision Using Fuzzy Logic for Robot Manipulator
: This paper presents a Lab. implementation of a computer vision using fuzzy models for pattern recognition for the detection of boundaries in images obtained through a camera inst...
Adriano Breunig, Haroldo R. de Azevedo, Edilberto ...
SBRN
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Competitive and Temporal Hebbian Learning for Production of Robot Trajectories
This paper proposes an unsupervised neural algorithm for trajectory production of a 6-DOF robotic arm. The model encodes these trajectories in a single training iteration by using...
Guilherme De A. Barreto, Aluizio F. R. Araú...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
An optical external localization system and applications to indoor tracking
— Precise robot positioning is important for many applications in indoor environments. Current solutions to the indoor localization problem are either both unreliable and inaccur...
Srujan Linga, Binayak Roy, H. Harry Asada, Daniela...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
The VoiceBot: a voice controlled robot arm
We present a system whereby the human voice may specify continuous control signals to manipulate a simulated 2D robotic arm and a real 3D robotic arm. Our goal is to move towards ...
Brandi House, Jonathan Malkin, Jeff Bilmes