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ICRA
1999
IEEE
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A General Contact Model for Dynamically-Decoupled Force/Motion Control
: This paper presents a general rst-order kinematic model of frictionless rigid-body contact for use in hybrid force motion control. It is formulated in an invariant manner by trea...
Roy Featherstone, Stef Sonck Thiebaut, Oussama Kha...
ICRA
1999
IEEE
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Planning Tracking Motions for an Intelligent Virtual Camera
We consider the problem of automatically generating viewpoint motions for a virtual camera tracking a moving target. Given the target's trajectory, we plan the motion of a ca...
Tsai-Yen Li, Tzong-Hann Yu
ICRA
1999
IEEE
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Clustering of Qualitative Contact States for a Transmission Assembly
Current manufacturing methods for robotic-controlled assembly rely on accurate positioning to ensure task completion, often through the use of special xtures and precise calibrati...
Marjorie Skubic, Benjamin Forrester, Brent Nowak
ICRA
1998
IEEE
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The Roles of Shape and Motion in Dynamic Manipulation: the Butterfly Example
We are studying a juggler's skill called the "butterfly." Startingwith a ball resting on the palm of his/her open hand, a skilled juggler can accelerate and shape h...
Kevin M. Lynch, Naoji Shiroma, Hirohiko Arai, Kazu...
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ICRA
1998
IEEE
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A 3-D Self-Reconfigurable Structure
: A three-dimensional, self-reconfigurable structure is proposed. The structure is a fully distributed system composed of many identical 3-D units. Each unit has functions of chang...
Satoshi Murata, Haruhisa Kurokawa, Eiichi Yoshida,...