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HRI
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Interactive humanoid robots for a science museum
This paper reports on a field trial with interactive humanoid robots at a science museum where visitors are encouraged to study and develop an interest in science. In the trial, ea...
Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro,...
NN
2000
Springer
137views Neural Networks» more  NN 2000»
14 years 9 months ago
Evolutionary robots with on-line self-organization and behavioral fitness
We address two issues in Evolutionary Robotics, namely the genetic encoding and the performance criterion, also known as fitness function. For the first aspect, we suggest to enco...
Dario Floreano, Joseba Urzelai
ICRA
1998
IEEE
126views Robotics» more  ICRA 1998»
15 years 1 months ago
Matrix Normalization for Optimal Robot Design
Good robot performance often relies upon the selection of design parameters that lead to a well conditioned Jacobian or impedance "design" matrix. In this paper, a new d...
Leo J. Stocco, S. E. Salcudean, F. Sassani
IROS
2006
IEEE
157views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
15 years 3 months ago
Trajectory and Spline Generation for All-Wheel Steering Mobile Robots
We present a method for trajectory generation for all-wheel steering mobile robots which can account for rough terrain and predictable vehicle dynamics and apply it to the problem...
Thomas M. Howard, Alonzo Kelly
ICRA
1999
IEEE
115views Robotics» more  ICRA 1999»
15 years 2 months ago
Design of a Spider-Like Robot for Motion with Quasistatic Force Constraints
Abstract: This paper presents a novel design of a Jiegged "spider" robot capable of moving in a wide range of two-dimensional tunnels. The spider moves in a quasistatic m...
Shraga Shoval, Elon Rimon, Amir Shapiro