Abstract— In the following work, we develop a characterization method using miniature fiberoptic position sensors for the Micromechanical Flying Insect (MFI)1 , a centimeter siz...
Erik Steltz, Robert J. Wood, Srinath Avadhanula, R...
Abstract— Human can efficiently grasp and dextrously manipulate various objects using their fingers cooperatively. When they attain proficiency in the rotating manipulation of...
Yuichi Kurita, Kazuyuki Nagata, Jun Ueda, Yoshio M...
: Several species of animals use whiskers to accurately navigate and explore objects in the absence of vision. We have developed inexpensive arrays of artificial whiskers based on ...
Aimee Schultz, Joseph Solomon, Michael A. Peshkin,...
— This paper is concerned with the problem of identifying robust equilibrium postures of a planar mechanism supported by fixed frictional contacts in a twodimensional gravitation...
— This paper describes the dynamic modeling of linear object deformation based on differential geometry coordinates. Deformable linear objects such as cables and strings are wide...