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TROB
2008
311views more  TROB 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
Smooth Vertical Surface Climbing With Directional Adhesion
Stickybot is a bio-inspired robot that climbs smooth vertical surfaces such as glass, plastic and ceramic tile at 4 cm/s. The robot employs several design principles adapted from t...
Sangbae Kim, Matthew Spenko, Salomon Trujillo, Bar...
AR
2010
74views more  AR 2010»
14 years 7 months ago
Driving Characteristics of a Surface Acoustic Wave Motor using a Flat-Plane Slider
We discuss the use of a flat-plane slider for a surface acoustic wave (SAW) motor. For stable driving, the SAW motor requires a silicon slider with many microprojections on its su...
Koki Sakano, Minoru Kuribayashi Kurosawa, Takashi ...
WCE
2007
14 years 11 months ago
Robot Motion Planning using Hyperboloid Potential Functions
—A new approach to robot path planning using hyperboloid potential functions is presented in this paper. Unlike parabolic potential functions, where the control force increases w...
A. Badawy, Colin R. McInnes
CDC
2008
IEEE
139views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
14 years 11 months ago
Pull-in control during nanometric positioning by near field position sensing
This paper deals with the pull-in control and the nanopositioning of an electrostatically actuated NEMS (Nano Electromechanical System) squeezed between two forces. It is shown tha...
Sylvain Blanvillain, Alina Voda, Gildas Besan&cced...
VR
2002
IEEE
149views Virtual Reality» more  VR 2002»
15 years 2 months ago
Tension Based 7-DOF Force Feedback Device: SPIDAR-G
In this paper, we intend to demonstrate a new intuitive force-feedback device for advanced VR applications. Force feedback for the device is tension based and is characterized by ...
Seahak Kim, Shoichi Hasegawa, Yasuharu Koike, Mako...