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ICRA
2006
IEEE
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15 years 3 months ago
A Kinematic Thumb Model for the ACT Hand
- The thumb is essential to the hand’s function in grasping and manipulating objects. Previous anthropomorphic robot hands have thumbs that are biologically-inspired but kinemati...
Lillian Y. Chang, Yoky Matsuoka
ICRA
1998
IEEE
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15 years 2 months ago
Removing the Singularities of Serial Manipulators by Transforming the Workspace
A new method of handling the kinematic singularities of serial robotic manipulators is proposed. The idea is to transform the manipulator's workspace W into a desingularized ...
John E. Lloyd
IROS
2006
IEEE
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15 years 3 months ago
Waalbot: An Agile Small-Scale Wall Climbing Robot Utilizing Pressure Sensitive Adhesives
Abstract— This paper proposes a small-scale agile wall climbing robot able to navigate on smooth surfaces of any orientation, including vertical and inverted surfaces, which uses...
Michael P. Murphy, William Tso, Michael Tanzini, M...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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15 years 3 months ago
Generating whole body motions for a biped humanoid robot from captured human dances
— The goal of this study is a system for a robot to imitate human dances. This paper describes the process to generate whole body motions which can be performed by an actual bipe...
Shinichiro Nakaoka, Atsushi Nakazawa, Kazuhito Yok...
CEC
2010
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Evolvable mechanics: Hardware tools for evolutionary robotics
Embodying robot morphologies evolved in simulation can present serious problems for an engineer when translating simplified simulated mechanisms into working devices, often drawing...
Bill Bigge Inman, R. Harvey