Affordances encode relationships between actions, objects and effects. They play an important role on basic cognitive capabilities such as prediction and planning. We address the p...
Luis Montesano, Manuel Lopes, Alexandre Bernardino...
Abstract--In robotic applications of visual simultaneous localization and mapping techniques, loop-closure detection and global localization are two issues that require the capacit...
Abstract--This paper presents the design of a gas-actuated anthropomorphic arm prosthesis with 21 degrees of freedom and nine independent actuators. The prosthesis utilizes the mon...
Kevin Fite, Thomas J. Withrow, Xiangrong Shen, Kei...
Abstract--In this paper, the authors examine the problem of designing nominal manipulator Jacobians that are optimally fault tolerant to one or more joint failures. Optimality is d...
Rodney G. Roberts, Hyun Geun Yu, Anthony A. Maciej...
This paper addresses the problem of achieving exact dynamic force control with manipulators possessing the low-level position and/or velocity controllers typically employed in indu...