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ISER
2004
Springer
182views Robotics» more  ISER 2004»
14 years 3 months ago
Nonholonomic Modeling of Needle Steering
As a flexible needle with a bevel tip is pushed through soft tissue, the asymmetry of the tip causes the needle to bend. We propose that, by using nonholonomic kinematics, contro...
Robert J. Webster III, Noah J. Cowan, Gregory S. C...
CDC
2009
IEEE
115views Control Systems» more  CDC 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Quantized consensus via adaptive stochastic gossip algorithm
Abstract— This paper is concerned with the distributed averaging problem over a given undirected graph. To enable every vertex to compute the average of the initial numbers sitti...
Javad Lavaei, Richard M. Murray
ICDCS
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
mTreebone: A Hybrid Tree/Mesh Overlay for Application-Layer Live Video Multicast
Application-layer overlay networks have recently emerged as a promising solution for live media multicast on the Internet. A tree is probably the most natural structure for a mult...
Feng Wang, Yongqiang Xiong, Jiangchuan Liu
ICCAD
1997
IEEE
137views Hardware» more  ICCAD 1997»
14 years 1 months ago
Optimization techniques for high-performance digital circuits
The relentless push for high performance in custom digital circuits has led to renewed emphasis on circuit optimization or tuning. The parameters of the optimization are typically...
Chandramouli Visweswariah
ICRA
2003
IEEE
128views Robotics» more  ICRA 2003»
14 years 3 months ago
A system for volumetric robotic mapping of abandoned mines
— This paper describes two robotic systems developed for acquiring accurate volumetric maps of underground mines. One system is based on a cart instrumented by laser range finde...
Sebastian Thrun, Dirk Hähnel, David I. Fergus...