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ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Milligram-scale high-voltage power electronics for piezoelectric microrobots
— Piezoelectric actuators can achieve high efficiency and power density in very small geometries, which shows promise for microrobotic applications, such as flapping-wing robot...
Michael Karpelson, Gu-Yeon Wei, Robert J. Wood
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ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Deployment algorithms for a power-constrained mobile sensor network
Abstract— This paper presents coverage algorithms for mobile sensor networks in which agents have limited power to move. Rather than making use of a constrained optimization tech...
Andrew Kwok, Sonia Martínez
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ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Identifying the Failure-Tolerant Workspace Boundaries of a Kinematically Redundant Manipulator
— In addition to possessing a number of other important properties, kinematically redundant manipulators are inherently more tolerant to locked-joint failures than nonredundant m...
Rodney G. Roberts, Rodrigo S. Jamisola, Anthony A....
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ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Discrete Approximations to Continuous Curves
Abstract— We consider the problem of approximating a continuous curve by a piecewise linear one whose segments are assumed to be connected by universal joints. Rather than taking...
Sean B. Andersson
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ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Real-time 3D Ultrasound-based Servoing of a Surgical Instrument
Abstract – This paper presents a real-time 3D ultrasoundguided robotic system, designed to autonomously navigate a surgical instrument to surgeon-specified target points. The sys...
Jeffrey A. Stoll, Paul M. Novotny, Robert D. Howe,...