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ICRA
2008
IEEE
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15 years 4 months ago
New aspects of input shaping control to damp oscillations of a compliant force sensor
— Compliance in robot mounted force/torque sensors is useful for soft mating of parts. However it generates nearly undamped oscillations when moving the end-effector in free spac...
Amine Kamel, Friedrich Lange, Gerd Hirzinger
ICRA
2006
IEEE
134views Robotics» more  ICRA 2006»
15 years 3 months ago
Validation and Explanation of Waterhammer-based Locomotion
ACT Search and rescue robots often use tethers to provide power and communication, but tethers get caught on debris and small robots have difficulty with the added drag of the tet...
Ross L. Feller, Douglas P. Perrin, Robert D. Howe
ICRA
1993
IEEE
104views Robotics» more  ICRA 1993»
15 years 1 months ago
Contact Transition Control: An Experimental Study
Successful control of contact transitions is an important capability of dextrous robotic manipulators. In this paper we examine several methods for controlling the transition from...
James M. Hyde, Mark R. Cutkosky
ICRA
2010
IEEE
107views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
14 years 8 months ago
A model for concentric tube continuum robots under applied wrenches
Abstract— Continuum robots made from telescoping precurved elastic tubes enable base-mounted actuators to specify the curved shapes of robots as thin as standard surgical needles...
D. Caleb Rucker, Bryan A. Jones, Robert J. Webster...
IJRR
2002
129views more  IJRR 2002»
14 years 9 months ago
Deformable Free-Space Tilings for Kinetic Collision Detection
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...
Pankaj K. Agarwal, Julien Basch, Leonidas J. Guiba...