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HCW
1998
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Implementing Distributed Synthetic Forces Simulations in Metacomputing Environments
A distributed, parallel implementation of the widely used Modular Semi-Automated Forces ModSAF Distributed Interactive Simulation DIS is presented, with Scalable Parallel Processo...
Sharon Brunett, Dan Davis, Thomas Gottschalk, Paul...
IVA
2009
Springer
14 years 3 days ago
A Groovy Virtual Drumming Agent
This paper presents an architecture for an intelligent virtual agent that imitates human drumming behaviour. Through imitation, the agent models the user-specific variations that ...
Axel Tidemann, Pinar Öztürk, Yiannis Dem...
CORR
2008
Springer
72views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Design Optimization for an Electro-Thermally Actuated Polymeric Microgripper
Thermal micro-actuators are a promising solution to the need for large-displacement, gentle handling force, low-power MEMS actuators. Potential applications of these devices are mi...
R. Voicu, R. Muller, L. Eftime
ICRA
2008
IEEE
155views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
14 years 1 months ago
Differential elastic actuator for robotic interaction tasks
For complex robotic tasks (manipulation, locomotion, haptics, ...), the lack of knowledge of precise interaction models, the difficulties to precisely measure the task associated ...
Michel Lauria, Marc-Antoine Legault, Marc-Andr&eac...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
132views Robotics» more  ICRA 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Loosely Coupled Joint Driven by SMA Coil Actuators
— We introduce a robotic prototype of an arm with a loosely coupled joint, modeled on the human joint. A viscoelastic object functions as cartilage and soft actuators as muscles....
Mizuho Shibata, Takahiro Yoshimura, Shinichi Hirai