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IPPS
1999
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
A Parallel Algorithm for Singular Value Decomposition as Applied to Failure Tolerant Manipulators
The system of equations that govern kinematically redundant manipulators is commonly solved by nding the singular value decomposition (SVD) of the corresponding Jacobian matrix. T...
Tracy D. Braun, Anthony A. Maciejewski, Howard Jay...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
223views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
15 years 2 months ago
Dynamic Motion Planning Whole Arm Grasp Systems Based on Switching Contact Modes
We present motion planning for dexterous manipulation by whole arm grasp system based on switching contact modes. Motion planning for such a system should consider changing dynami...
Masahito Yashima, Hideya Yamaguchi
ICRA
2000
IEEE
108views Robotics» more  ICRA 2000»
15 years 2 months ago
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
SIGGRAPH
1994
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Planning motions with intentions
We apply manipulation planning to computer animation. A new path planner is presented that automatically computes the collision-free trajectories for several cooperating arms toma...
Yoshihito Koga, Koichi Kondo, James Kuffner, Jean-...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
114views Robotics» more  ICRA 2003»
15 years 3 months ago
Robotic catching using a direct mapping from visual information to motor command
— In this paper a robotic catching algorithm based on a nonlinear mapping of visual information to the desired trajectory is proposed. The nonlinear mapping is optimized by learn...
Akio Namiki, Masatoshi Ishikawa