— 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...