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ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Dynamic Ambiguities in Frictional Rigid-body Systems with Application to Climbing via Bracing
Abstract— Constructing climbing behaviors for hyperredundant robots that account for the system dynamics requires a model of robot dynamics under contact and friction. One common...
Aaron Greenfield, Alfred A. Rizzi, Howie Choset
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ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Design of a Free Piston Pneumatic Compressor as a Mobile Robot Power Supply
– The design of a free piston compressor (FPC) intended as a pneumatic power supply for pneumatically actuated autonomous robots is presented in this paper. The FPC is a proposed...
Jose Riofrio, Eric J. Barth
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ISER
2004
Springer
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15 years 3 months ago
Free-Climbing with a Multi-Use Robot
This paper presents a new four-limbed robot, LEMUR IIb (Legged Excursion Mechanical Utility Rover), that can free-climb vertical rock surfaces. This robot was designed to have a nu...
Timothy Bretl, Stephen M. Rock, Jean-Claude Latomb...
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ICRA
2009
IEEE
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15 years 4 months ago
Toward model free atmospheric sensing by aerial robot networks in strong wind fields
Abstract—This paper presents a system for in situ atmospheric sensing using an aerial robot system in the presence of a strong wind field. The geostatistical concept of the vari...
Jack Elston, Maciej Stachura, Eric W. Frew, Ute C....
IJRR
2000
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14 years 9 months ago
Collision-Free Trajectory Planning for a 3-DoF Robot with a Passive Joint
Kevin M. Lynch, Naoji Shiroma, Hirohiko Arai, Kazu...