An important component of compliant motion control is the estimation of contact states during task execution. This paper addresses two fundamental questions that must be answered w...
The Dual Smart Drive is a specially designed nonlinear actuator intended for use in climbing and walking legged robots. It features a continuously changing transmission ratio and d...
Abstract--This paper proposes a parallel hardware architecture for image feature detection based on the SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform) algorithm and applied to the SLAM (...
Vanderlei Bonato, Eduardo Marques, George A. Const...
Abstract--This paper proposes a new method of merging parameterized fuzzy sets based on clustering in the parameters space, taking into account the degree of inclusion of each fuzz...
In this paper, we present an approach for recognizing pointing gestures in the context of human–robot interaction. In order to obtain input features for gesture recognition, we ...