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ICRA
2009
IEEE
116views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
15 years 8 months ago
Development of grip-type master hand "MeisterGRIP"
—We propose a novel grip-type master hand called MeisterGRIP that measures grip force in terms of a force vector distribution. This device is expected to allow intuitive robot ma...
Katsunari Sato, Shuji Komeiji, Naoki Kawakami, Sus...
TROB
2010
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14 years 11 months ago
Design and Control of Concentric-Tube Robots
—A novel approach toward construction of robots is based on a concentric combination of precurved elastic tubes. By rotation and extension of the tubes with respect to each other...
Pierre E. Dupont, Jesse Lock, Brandon Itkowitz, Ev...
ACL
2009
14 years 11 months ago
Comparing Objective and Subjective Measures of Usability in a Human-Robot Dialogue System
We present a human-robot dialogue system that enables a robot to work together with a human user to build wooden construction toys. We then describe a study in which na
Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani, Alois Knoll
CDC
2010
IEEE
145views Control Systems» more  CDC 2010»
14 years 8 months ago
Construction of Lyapunov functions for piecewise-deterministic Markov processes
The purpose of this contribution is twofold: 1) to present for the first time a Lyapunov function that proves exponential ergodicity of a process studied by the authors in [1], whe...
Alexandre R. Mesquita, João Pedro Hespanha
IROS
2007
IEEE
144views Robotics» more  IROS 2007»
15 years 7 months ago
High precision PSD guided robot localization: Design, mapping, and position control
— This paper introduces our recently developed high precision robot localization system employing position sensitive detectors (PSD). A lateral effect PSD is an ideal position se...
S. Blank, Yantao Shen, Ning Xi, Chi Zhang, Uchechu...