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SMC
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Learning navigation for recharging a self-sufficient colony robot
—It is desirable that colony robots be autonomous and self-sufficient, which requires that they can perform their duties while maintaining enough energy to operate. In previous w...
Gary B. Parker, Richard Zbeda
IROS
2006
IEEE
138views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
14 years 2 months ago
Power Electronics Design Choice for Piezoelectric Microrobots
Abstract— Piezoelectric actuators are advantageous for microrobots due to their light weight, high bandwidth, high force production, low power consumption, and simplicity of inte...
Erik Steltz, M. Seeman, Srinath Avadhanula, Ronald...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
90views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Genetic Optimization and Simulation of a Piezoelectric Pipe-Crawling Inspection Robot
- Using the Darwin2k development software, a genetic algorithm (GA) was used to design and optimize a pipecrawling robot for parameters such as mass, power consumption, and joint e...
Geoffrey Hollinger, Jeri Briscoe
ICRA
2009
IEEE
161views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
13 years 6 months ago
Control for throwing manipulation by one joint robot
This paper proposes a throwing manipulation strategy for a robot with one revolute joint. The throwing manipulation enables the robot not only to manipulate the object to outside o...
Hideyuki Miyashita, Tasuku Yamawaki, Masahito Yash...
ARCS
2006
Springer
14 years 15 days ago
Power-Aware Collective Tree Exploration
An n-node tree has to be explored by a group of k mobile robots deployed initially at the root. Robots traverse the edges of the tree until all nodes are visited. We would like to ...
Miroslaw Dynia, Miroslaw Korzeniowski, Christian S...