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IROS
2006
IEEE
116views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
On the Importance of Asymmetries in Grasp Quality Metrics for Tendon Driven Hands
Abstract— Grasp quality measures are important for understanding how to plan for and maintain appropriate and secure grasps for pick and place operations and tool use. Most grasp...
Jiaxin L. Fu, Nancy S. Pollard
ECCV
1996
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
Uncalibrated Visual Tasks via Linear Interaction
In this paper, we propose an approach for the control and layering of space-time continuous visual tasks with an uncalibrated camera. The approach is based on the bidimensional ap...
Carlo Colombo, James L. Crowley
ECAIW
2000
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
A Hierarchy of Reactive Behaviors Handles Complexity
This paper discusses the hierarchical control architecture used to generate the behavior of individual agents and a team of robots for the RoboCup Small Size competition. Our react...
Sven Behnke, Raúl Rojas
CDC
2008
IEEE
143views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
A nonlinear, control-oriented model for ionic polymer-metal composite actuators
Ionic polymer-metal composites (IPMCs) form an important category of electroactive polymers and have many potential applications in biomedical, robotic and micro/nano manipulation ...
Zheng Chen, Dawn R. Hedgepeth, Xiaobo Tan
ICAS
2009
IEEE
109views Robotics» more  ICAS 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Ponder2: A Policy System for Autonomous Pervasive Environments
Policies form an important part of management and can be an effective means of implementing self-adaptation in pervasive systems. Most policy-based systems focus on large-scale ne...
Kevin P. Twidle, Naranker Dulay, Emil Lupu, Morris...