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ICRA
2002
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Design of a 5-DOF Haptic Simulator for Urological Operations
A new haptic feedback mechanism with five active degrees of freedom (dof), part of a training simulator for urological operations, is presented. The mechanism consists of a 2-dof 5...
Evangelos Papadopoulos, Kostas Vlachos, Dionyssios...
RAS
2002
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13 years 8 months ago
Avoiding self-occlusions and preserving visibility by path planning in the image
In this paper, we address the problem of generating trajectories of some image features in order to control efficiently a robotic system using an image-based control strategy. Firs...
Youcef Mezouar, François Chaumette
IROS
2008
IEEE
174views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
14 years 3 months ago
Control of omni-directional mobile platform with four driving wheels using torque redundancy
— An omni-directional moving platform with four wheels is developed and its controller is designed for tracking desired trajectories. The four wheels of the platform are torque c...
Shunsuke Amagai, Taichi Tsuji, Jabes Samuel, Hisas...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
165views Robotics» more  ICRA 2006»
14 years 3 months ago
Trajectory Tracking and Balance Stabilization Control of Autonomous Motorcycles
— In this paper, we present a trajectory tracking control algorithm for an autonomous motorcycle for the DARPA Grand Challenge. The mathematical dynamic model of the autonomous m...
Jingang Yi, Dezhen Song, Anthony Levandowski, Suha...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
107views Robotics» more  ICRA 2003»
14 years 2 months ago
A miniature inspection robot negotiating pipes of widely varying diameter
The purpose of this research is to realize a small robot which can negotiate pipes whose diameter varies widely during the robot’s course. A new in-pipe locomotion mechanism nam...
Koichi Suzumori, Shuichi Wakimoto, Masanori Takata