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SAC
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Template design and automatic generation of controllers for industrial robots
The basic theory of supervisory control of discrete-event systems is extended with the notion of templates, which simplifies the modeling of controllers since one can work with co...
Lenko Grigorov, Karen Rudie, José E. R. Cur...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
130views Robotics» more  ICRA 2007»
14 years 3 months ago
Design of a Biomimetic Controlled-Curvature Robotic Pectoral Fin
—This paper describes the design, construction, and testing of a biomimetic pectoral (side) fin with actively controlled curvature for UUV propulsion. First, a 3D unsteady comput...
John Palmisano, Ravi Ramamurti, Kerr-Jia Lu, Jonah...
HYBRID
2003
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Hybrid Control Design for a Wheeled Mobile Robot
We present a hybrid systems solution to the problem of trajectory tracking for a four-wheel steered four-wheel driven mobile robot. The robot is modelled as a non-holonomic dynamic...
Thomas Bak, Jan Bendtsen, Anders P. Ravn
ACMDIS
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
LumiBots: making emergence graspable in a swarm of robots
Emergence is a concept that is not easy to grasp, since it contradicts our idea of central control and planning. In this work, we use a swarm of robots as a tangible tool to visua...
Mey Lean Kronemann, Verena Vanessa Hafner
CACM
2000
143views more  CACM 2000»
13 years 8 months ago
Embedding Robots into the Internet
With the explosive growth of embedded computing hardware, it is possible to conceive many new networked robotic applications for diverse domains ranging from urban search and resc...
Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Maja J. Mataric