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ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Modeling of a closed loop cable-conduit transmission system
— Many surgical robots use cable-conduit pairs in a pull-pull configuration to actuate the instruments and transmit power into the patient’s body. Friction between the cable an...
Varun Agrawal, William J. Peine, Bin Yao
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Modeling of biomimetic robotic fish propelled by an ionic polymer-metal composite actuator
— In this paper a physics-based model is proposed for a biomimetic robotic fish propelled by an ionic polymermetal composite (IPMC) actuator. The model incorporates both IPMC ac...
Ernest Mbemmo, Zheng Chen, Stephan Shatara, Xiaobo...
IPPS
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
An adaptive parallel pipeline pattern for grids
This paper introduces an adaptive parallel pipeline pattern which follows the GRASP (Grid-Adaptive Structured Parallelism) methodology. GRASP is a generic methodology to incorpora...
Horacio González-Vélez, Murray Cole
PDP
2007
IEEE
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A Self-Aware Clock for Pervasive Computing Systems
The paper addresses the challenges and opportunities of instrumenting pervasive computing systems with a logical clock, aware of the quality of synchronization with respect to a t...
Andrea Bondavalli, Andrea Ceccarelli, Lorenzo Fala...
ATAL
2007
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
A Normative Multi-Agent Systems Approach to the Use of Conviviality for Digital Cities
Conviviality is a mechanism to reinforce social cohesion and a tool to reduce mis-coordination between individuals, groups and institutions in web communities, for example in digit...
Patrice Caire