— New technologies and processes enhance the need for direct human-robot-interaction, to fully exploit the potential of robots’ accuracy and humans’ adaptability. Therefore, ...
Abstract— Tomorrow’s humanoids will operate in human environments, where efficient manipulation and locomotion skills, and safe contact interactions will be critical design fa...
— On a scene of a natural disaster, rescuers require heavy duty hydraulic machines to answer their need of large forces, or to approach an unreachable spot. Those industrial vehi...
— Given a set of affine varieties in ℜ3, i.e. planes, lines, and points, the problem tackled in this paper is that of finding all possible configurations for these varieties...
Three fundamental problems in the study of grasping and dextrous manipulation with multifingered robotic hands are as follows. a) Given a robotic hand and a grasp characterized by ...