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CEC
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Combine and compare evolutionary robotics and reinforcement Learning as methods of designing autonomous robots
—The purpose of this paper is to present a comparison between two methods of building adaptive controllers for robots. In spite of the wide range of techniques which are used for...
Sergiu Goschin, Eduard Franti, Monica Dascalu, San...
ICRA
1993
IEEE
104views Robotics» more  ICRA 1993»
14 years 26 days ago
Experiments with a Dual-Armed, Cooperative, Flexible-Drivetrain Robot System
Many tasks are di cult or impossible for onearmed" robots, for example, assembly with long parts. Multi-armed robots can do such tasks well, but only if both robot and contro...
Lawrence E. Pfeffer, Robert H. Cannon Jr.
ROBIO
2006
IEEE
139views Robotics» more  ROBIO 2006»
14 years 2 months ago
Biologically Inspired Reflex Based Stabilization Control of a Humanoid Robot with Artificial SMA Muscles
- Suddenly occurring collisions or unintentional motions represent a high safety risk in robotics and must be prevented. Especially for humanoid robots, the influence of disturbanc...
Robert Kratz, Sebastian Klug, Maximilian Stelzer, ...
ICRA
1998
IEEE
110views Robotics» more  ICRA 1998»
14 years 1 months ago
The Self-Reconfiguring Robotic Molecule
We discuss a robotic module called a Molecule. Molecules can be the basis for building selfreconfiguring robots. They support multiple modalities of locomotion and manipulation. W...
Keith Kotay, Daniela Rus, Marsette Vona, Craig D. ...
ICRA
2000
IEEE
78views Robotics» more  ICRA 2000»
14 years 1 months ago
Hybrid System Design for Singularityless Task Level Robot Controllers
This paper presents a hybrid system approach in the design of a singularityless task level controller. To achieve a singularityless motion control in the neighborhood of singulari...
Jindong Tan, Ning Xi