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ICRA
2009
IEEE
116views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
14 years 4 months ago
Development of grip-type master hand "MeisterGRIP"
—We propose a novel grip-type master hand called MeisterGRIP that measures grip force in terms of a force vector distribution. This device is expected to allow intuitive robot ma...
Katsunari Sato, Shuji Komeiji, Naoki Kawakami, Sus...
TROB
2010
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13 years 8 months ago
Design and Control of Concentric-Tube Robots
—A novel approach toward construction of robots is based on a concentric combination of precurved elastic tubes. By rotation and extension of the tubes with respect to each other...
Pierre E. Dupont, Jesse Lock, Brandon Itkowitz, Ev...
ACL
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Comparing Objective and Subjective Measures of Usability in a Human-Robot Dialogue System
We present a human-robot dialogue system that enables a robot to work together with a human user to build wooden construction toys. We then describe a study in which na
Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani, Alois Knoll
CDC
2010
IEEE
145views Control Systems» more  CDC 2010»
13 years 4 months ago
Construction of Lyapunov functions for piecewise-deterministic Markov processes
The purpose of this contribution is twofold: 1) to present for the first time a Lyapunov function that proves exponential ergodicity of a process studied by the authors in [1], whe...
Alexandre R. Mesquita, João Pedro Hespanha
IROS
2007
IEEE
144views Robotics» more  IROS 2007»
14 years 4 months ago
High precision PSD guided robot localization: Design, mapping, and position control
— This paper introduces our recently developed high precision robot localization system employing position sensitive detectors (PSD). A lateral effect PSD is an ideal position se...
S. Blank, Yantao Shen, Ning Xi, Chi Zhang, Uchechu...