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TOG
2012
232views Communications» more  TOG 2012»
11 years 11 months ago
Discovery of complex behaviors through contact-invariant optimization
We present a motion synthesis framework capable of producing a wide variety of important human behaviors that have rarely been studied, including getting up from the ground, crawl...
Igor Mordatch, Emanuel Todorov, Zoran Popovic
ALGORITHMICA
2002
120views more  ALGORITHMICA 2002»
13 years 8 months ago
An Experimental Study of Algorithms for Weighted Completion Time Scheduling
We consider the total weighted completion time scheduling problem for parallel identical machines and precedence constraints, P jprecj PwiCi. This important and broad class of pro...
Ivan D. Baev, Waleed Meleis, Alexandre E. Eichenbe...
RAS
2010
164views more  RAS 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Towards performing everyday manipulation activities
This article investigates fundamental issues in scaling autonomous personal robots towards open-ended sets of everyday manipulation tasks which involve high complexity and vague j...
Michael Beetz, Dominik Jain, Lorenz Mösenlech...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
159views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
An RRT-based path planner for use in trajectory imitation
We propose a more robust robot programming by demonstration system planner that produces a reproduction path which satisfies statistical constraints derived from demonstration traj...
Jonathan Claassens
ICRA
2009
IEEE
165views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Guiding medical needles using single-point tissue manipulation
— This paper addresses the use of robotic tissue manipulation in medical needle insertion procedures to improve targeting accuracy and to help avoid damaging sensitive tissues. T...
Meysam Torabi, Kris K. Hauser, Ron Alterovitz, Vin...