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ICRA
2007
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Emotional Architecture for the Humanoid Robot Head ROMAN
— Humanoid robots as assistance or educational robots is an important research topic in the field of robotics. Especially the communication of those robots with a human operator...
Jochen Hirth, Norbert Schmitz, Karsten Berns
IROS
2006
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Toward Active Cannulas: Miniature Snake-Like Surgical Robots
— We have developed a new class of continuously flexible snake-like robots, called active cannulas, that consist of several telescoping pre-curved superelastic tubes. The device...
Robert J. Webster III, Allison M. Okamura, Noah J....
IROS
2007
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
The effect of joint elasticity on bilateral teleoperation
— In applications such as space and surgical robotics, the use of thin, lightweight manipulators and cable-driven endeffectors results in flexibility of the manipulator. In bila...
Mahdi Tavakoli, Robert D. Howe
ACHI
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Simulation Framework for Human-Robot Interaction
Abstract—The development of human-robot interaction scenarios is a strongly situation-dependent as well as an extremely dynamic task. Humans interacting with the robot directly r...
Norbert Schmitz, Jochen Hirth, Karsten Berns
HAPTICS
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Soft Finger Model with Adaptive Contact Geometry for Grasping and Manipulation Tasks
This paper presents a method for building analytical contact models for soft fingers. Friction constraints are derived based on general expressions for non-planar contacts of ela...
Matei T. Ciocarlie, Claire Lackner, Peter K. Allen