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HAPTICS
2010
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Gesture Recognition in the Haptic Creature
Touch is an important but poorly studied aspect of emotional communication. With the Haptic Creature we are investigating fundamentals of affective touch. This small robot senses t...
Jonathan Chang, Karon E. MacLean, Steve Yohanan
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ICRA
2010
IEEE
275views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
14 years 11 months ago
A measurement model for tracking hand-object state during dexterous manipulation
— It is frequently accepted in the manipulation literature that tactile sensing is needed to improve the precision of robot manipulation. However, there is no consensus on how th...
Craig Corcoran, Robert Platt
102
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TROB
2010
114views more  TROB 2010»
14 years 10 months ago
Tactile Sensing - From Humans to Humanoids
—Starting from human ‘sense of touch’, this work reviews the state of tactile sensing in robotics. Following a brief discussion on the physiology, coding, tactile data transf...
R. S. Dahiya, Giorgio Metta, M. Valle, Giulio Sand...
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CAGD
2010
132views more  CAGD 2010»
14 years 9 months ago
Skinning of circles and spheres
Skinning of an ordered set of discrete circles is discussed in this paper. By skinning we mean the geometric construction of two G1 continuous curves touching each of the circles ...
R. Kunkli, M. Hoffmann
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STOC
2002
ACM
91views Algorithms» more  STOC 2002»
16 years 22 days ago
The importance of being biased
The Minimum Vertex Cover problem is the problem of, given a graph, finding a smallest set of vertices that touches all edges. We show that it is NP-hard to approximate this proble...
Irit Dinur, Shmuel Safra