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ICRA
2005
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Operational Space Control of Multibody Systems with Explicit Holonomic Constraints
— This paper presents an operational space control approach for the general class of holonomically constrained multibody systems. As a point of departure, the general formulation...
Vincent De Sapio, Oussama Khatib
ICRA
2010
IEEE
154views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Design and analysis of a soft mobile robot composed of multiple thermally activated joints driven by a single actuator
— Soft robotic systems have applications in industrial, medical, and security applications. Many applications require these robots to be small and lightweight. One challenge in d...
Nadia Cheng, Genya Ishigami, Stephan Hawthorne, Ha...
AUTOMATICA
2007
152views more  AUTOMATICA 2007»
13 years 7 months ago
Analysis of undercompensation and overcompensation of friction in 1DOF mechanical systems
This paper investigates the effects of undercompensation and overcompensation of friction in PD controlled 1DOF mechanical systems. The friction force that is acting on the mechan...
Devi Putra, Henk Nijmeijer, Nathan van de Wouw
IMAMCI
2008
69views more  IMAMCI 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Gain reduction in switched sliding-mode control
: A switched sliding mode control strategy for a class of nonlinear uncertain systems is presented in this paper. It is characterized by an event
Antonella Ferrara, Riccardo Scattolini
USENIX
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Making the "Box" Transparent: System Call Performance as a First-Class Result
For operating system intensive applications, the ability of designers to understand system call performance behavior is essential to achieving high performance. Conventional perfo...
Yaoping Ruan, Vivek S. Pai