Abstract – For conventional designs of robots, manipulator motions result in forces and moments on the base. These forces and moments may cause undesirable translation and rotati...
Creating a compelling haptic sense of immersion in a virtual environment is a challenging task for the control engineer. A haptic display must render both low impedance free-space...
— Human Machine Collaborative Systems (HMCS) have been developed to enhance sensation and suppress extraneous motions or forces during surgical tasks requiring precise motion. Ho...
Zachary A. Pezzementi, Allison M. Okamura, Gregory...
Manual materials handling of heavy loads is a common cause of low back disorders. The manual manipulation of a heavy load may be made more comfortable by constraining the load to ...
Abstract— The roller racer, an undulatory locomotion system, is a toy which can be propelled forward by sitting on it and only oscillating the steering handle. A nonholonomic dyn...