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ISER
2004
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Collective Inspection of Regular Structures using a Swarm of Miniature Robots
We present a series of experiments concerned with the inspection of regular, engineered structures carried out using swarms of five to twenty autonomous, miniature robots, solely ...
Nikolaus Correll, Alcherio Martinoli
ICAS
2008
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Connectivity of Thetis, a Distributed Hybrid Simulator, with a Mixed Control Architecture
—The purpose of this paper is to present the linkage of Thetis (a real time multi-vehicles hybrid simulator for heterogeneous vehicles) with a control architecture for the manage...
Olivier Parodi, Abdellah El Jalaoui, David Andreu
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Evolution of the NASA/DARPA robonaut control system
The NASA/DARPA Robonaut system is evolving from a purely teleoperator controlled anthropomorphic robot towards a humanoid system with multiple control pathways. Robonaut is a huma...
Myron A. Diftler, Robert Platt Jr., C. J. Culbert,...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
129views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Optimal passive dynamics for torque/force control
Abstract— For robotic manipulation tasks in uncertain environments, good force control can provide significant benefits. The design of force-controlled actuators typically revo...
Kevin Kemper, Devin Koepl, Jonathan Hurst
IROS
2008
IEEE
170views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
14 years 3 months ago
RoACH: An autonomous 2.4g crawling hexapod robot
— This work presents the design, fabrication, and testing of a novel hexapedal walking millirobot using only two actuators. Fabricated from S2-Glass reinforced composites and fl...
Aaron M. Hoover, Erik Steltz, Ronald S. Fearing