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IROS
2009
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Analysis of the terrestrial locomotion of a salamander robot
Abstract— Salamanders propel themselves by proper coordination of limb movements and body undulations. This type of locomotion is interesting for robotics to design robots capabl...
Konstantinos Karakasiliotis, Auke Jan Ijspeert
FSR
2007
Springer
164views Robotics» more  FSR 2007»
14 years 3 months ago
Experiments in Navigation and Mapping with a Hovering AUV
This paper describes the basic control, navigation, and mapping methods and experiments a hovering autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) designed to explore flooded cenotes in Mexi...
George Kantor, Nathaniel Fairfield, Dominic Jonak,...
CDC
2008
IEEE
109views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
14 years 3 months ago
On visibility maintenance via controlled invariance for leader-follower Dubins-like vehicles
— The paper studies the visibility maintenance problem (VMP) for a leader-follower pair of robots modelled as first-order dynamic systems and proposes an original solution based...
Fabio Morbidi, Francesco Bullo, Domenico Prattichi...
ICRA
1998
IEEE
101views Robotics» more  ICRA 1998»
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An Approach to Reduction of Hysteresis in Smart Materials
This paper addresses the problem of reducing the hysteresis found in the actuation of most smart materials. They are divided in two groups: systems with no saturation (e.g. piezoe...
Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernández, Vincent Hayward
ICRA
2008
IEEE
144views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
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Path guidance control for a safer large scale dissipative haptic display
—The properties of dissipative haptic displays allow larger workspaces that permit a whole body interaction useful for sports, rehabilitation, and large-scale object design appli...
Brian Dellon, Yoky Matsuoka