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ICRA
1998
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
The Bow Leg Hopping Robot
The bow leg hopper is a novel locomotor design with a highly resilient leg that resembles an archer's bow. During flight, a "thrust" actuator adds elastic energy to...
Ben Brown, Garth Zeglin
ICRA
2010
IEEE
154views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Design and analysis of a soft mobile robot composed of multiple thermally activated joints driven by a single actuator
— Soft robotic systems have applications in industrial, medical, and security applications. Many applications require these robots to be small and lightweight. One challenge in d...
Nadia Cheng, Genya Ishigami, Stephan Hawthorne, Ha...
CORR
2008
Springer
81views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Kinematic Analysis of the vertebra of an eel like robot
The kinematic analysis of a spherical wrist with parallel architecture is the object of this article. This study is part of a larger French project, which aims to design and to bu...
Damien Chablat
HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Planning as an architectural control mechanism
We describe recent work on PECAS, an architecture for intelligent robotics that supports multi-modal interaction. Categories and Subject Descriptors I.2.8 [Computing Methodologies...
Nick Hawes, Michael Brenner, Kristoffer Sjö&o...
MCS
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Architectural concepts and Design Patterns for behavior modeling and integration
The design of the control software for complex systems is a difficult task. It requires the modeling, the simulation, the integration and the adaptation of a multitude of intercon...
Jean-Marc Perronne, Laurent Thiry, Bernard Thirion