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FSR
2005
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Efficient Braking Model for Off-Road Mobile Robots
In the near future, off-road mobile robots will feature high levels of autonomy which will render them useful for a variety of tasks on Earth and other planets. Many terrestrial a...
Mikhail Pivtoraiko, Alonzo Kelly, Peter Rander
ISER
2004
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Free-Climbing with a Multi-Use Robot
This paper presents a new four-limbed robot, LEMUR IIb (Legged Excursion Mechanical Utility Rover), that can free-climb vertical rock surfaces. This robot was designed to have a nu...
Timothy Bretl, Stephen M. Rock, Jean-Claude Latomb...
FSR
2003
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
An Enhanced Robotic Library System for an Off-Site Shelving Facility
This paper describes our continued work of a unique robotics project, Comprehensive Access to Printed Materials (CAPM), within the context of libraries. As libraries provide a gro...
Jackrit Suthakorn, Sangyoon Lee, Yu Zhou, G. Sayee...
NN
2000
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Evolutionary robots with on-line self-organization and behavioral fitness
We address two issues in Evolutionary Robotics, namely the genetic encoding and the performance criterion, also known as fitness function. For the first aspect, we suggest to enco...
Dario Floreano, Joseba Urzelai
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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13 years 7 months ago
Peristaltic locomotion with antagonistic actuators in soft robotics
— This paper presents a soft robotic platform that exhibits peristaltic locomotion. The design principle is based on the unique antagonistic arrangement of radial/circular and lo...
Sangok Seok, Cagdas Denizel Onal, Robert J. Wood, ...