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ICRA
1998
IEEE
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Dextrous Manipulation by Rolling and Finger Gaiting
Many practical dextrous manipulation tasks involve large-scale motion of the grasped object while maintaining a stable grasp. To plan such tasks, one must control both the motion ...
Li Han, Jeffrey C. Trinkle
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Controllability of Single Input Rolling Manipulation
This paper investigates controllability of underactuated rolling systems consisting of a smooth object rolling on a moving smooth surface. Our system consists of a spherical ball ...
Prasun Choudhury, Kevin M. Lynch
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Grasping Curved Objects through Rolling
Grasping a curved object free in the plane may be done through rolling a pair of fingers on the object’s boundary. Each finger is equipped with a tactile sensor able to record...
Yan-Bin Jia
KI
2007
Springer
14 years 12 days ago
Making a Robot Learn to Play Soccer Using Reward and Punishment
In this paper, we show how reinforcement learning can be applied to real robots to achieve optimal robot behavior. As example, we enable an autonomous soccer robot to learn interce...
Heiko Müller, Martin Lauer, Roland Hafner, Sa...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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13 years 4 months ago
Stable dynamic walking of a quadruped robot "Kotetsu" using phase modulations based on leg loading/unloading
In this study, we intend to show the basis of a general legged locomotion controller with the ability to integrate both posture and rhythmic motion controls and shift continuously ...
Christophe Maufroy, Tomohiro Nishikawa, Hiroshi Ki...