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ICRA
2010
IEEE
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14 years 10 months ago
Port-Hamiltonian analysis of a novel robotic finger concept for minimal actuation variable impedance grasping
Abstract— This paper introduces a novel robotic finger concept for variable impedance grasping in unstructured tasks. A brief literature survey reveals the need for minimal comp...
Martin Wassink, Raffaella Carloni, Stefano Stramig...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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14 years 10 months ago
Human-guided grasp measures improve grasp robustness on physical robot
— Humans are adept at grasping different objects robustly for different tasks. Robotic grasping has made significant progress, but still has not reached the level of robustness ...
Ravi Balasubramanian, Ling Xu, Peter D. Brook, Jos...
KI
2002
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Spatial Strategies in Human-Robot Communication
This paper deals with various kinds of mental representations available for linguistic instruction in spatial humanrobot interaction. After a survey of the literature on spatial r...
Thora Tenbrink, Kerstin Fischer, Reinhard Moratz
IROS
2006
IEEE
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15 years 5 months ago
Coordinate Frames in Robotic Teleoperation
— An important mode of human-robot interaction is teleoperation, in which a human operator directly controls a robot via hardware such as a joystick or mouse. Such control is not...
Laura M. Hiatt, Reid G. Simmons
AR
2011
14 years 6 months ago
A Direct Physical Interface for Navigation and Positioning of a Robotic Nursing Assistant
People often use direct physical contact to guide a person to a desired location (e.g., leading a child by the hand) or to adjust a person’s posture for a task (e.g., a dance in...
Tiffany L. Chen, Charles C. Kemp