— The success of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rovers has demonstrated the important benefits that mobility adds to planetary exploration. Very soon, mission requirements will impos...
Ioannis M. Rekleitis, Jean-Luc Bedwani, Erick Dupu...
— Piezoelectric bending actuators are an attractive option for driving microrobots due to their light weight, scalability, ease of integration and high bandwidth. However, the on...
Abstract—Models that can efficiently, compactly, and semantically represent potential users are important tools for human-robot interaction applications. We model a person as a p...
- This paper introduces a new approach to identify singularities of planar parallel manipulators (PPMs). This method is based on Maxwell’s reciprocal figure theory which establis...
— This paper proposes a method for synthesizing dance performance synchronized to played music and our method presents a system that imitates dancers’ skills in performing thei...