: This research studied the optimal design of Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) muscle wire bundle actuators. Current literature describes the use of multiple muscle wires placed in paralle...
Kathryn J. De Laurentis, Avi Fisch, Jason Nikitczu...
Abstract--Long-term human space exploration will require contingencies for emergency medical procedures including some capability to perform surgery. The ability to perform minimal...
Mark Rentschler, Stephen R. Platt, Kyle R. Berg, J...
— This paper presents a method for a planar rigid body consisting of multiple convex bodies to explore an unknown planar workspace, i.e., an unknown configuration space diffeomo...
— The dangerous and time sensitive nature of a disaster area makes it an ideal application for robotic exploration. Our long term goal is to enable humans, software agents, and a...
— Distributed motion planning of multiple agents raises fundamental and novel problems in control theory and robotics. Recently, one such great challenge has been the development...