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ICRA
2006
IEEE
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15 years 3 months ago
Characterization of Protein based Spring-like Elastic Joints for Biorobotic Applications
—This paper presents a molecular mechanics study using a molecular dynamics software (NAMD) for characterization of molecular elastic joints for bio nanorobotic prototyping. Simp...
Mustapha Hamdi, Gaurav Sharma, Antoine Ferreira, C...
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ICRA
2006
IEEE
93views Robotics» more  ICRA 2006»
15 years 3 months ago
Motion Planning for a Class of Planar Closed-chain Manipulators
— We study the motion planning problem for planar star-shaped manipulators. These manipulators are formed by joining k “legs” to a common point (like the thorax of an insect)...
Guanfeng Liu, Jeffrey C. Trinkle, N. Shvalb
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ICRA
2003
IEEE
115views Robotics» more  ICRA 2003»
15 years 3 months ago
Microrobotics using composite materials: the micromechanical flying insect thorax
The use of high performance composite materials provides a substantial performance improvement for microrobotics. Such materials have great benefits over common MEMs materials su...
Robert J. Wood, Srinath Avadhanula, M. Menon, Rona...
ICRA
1999
IEEE
82views Robotics» more  ICRA 1999»
15 years 2 months ago
An Investigation into Non-Smooth Locomotion
We analyze a class of mechanisms that locomote by switching between constraints. Because of the hybrid nature of such systems, most of the existing analysis tools, developed prima...
Milos Zefran, Francesco Bullo, Jim Radford
ICRA
2010
IEEE
110views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
14 years 8 months ago
Visual servoing from three points using a spherical projection model
— This paper deals with visual servoing from three points. Using the geometric properties of the spherical projection of points, a new decoupled set of six visual features is pro...
Romeo Tatsambon Fomena, Omar Tahri, Françoi...